Beeban Kidron Quotes
Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I love girl power.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs.
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I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.
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The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.
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The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control. Since it is impossible to count on enough moral goodwill among those who possess irresponsible power to sacrifice it for the good of the whole, it must be destroyed by coercive methods and these will always run the peril of introducing new forms of injustice in place of those abolished.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
