Belva Lockwood Quotes
I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I don't study; I create.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I find the business world hard.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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If I become so convinced that ‘I’m always right,’ the logical conclusion of that often ends up being great cruelty and great violence.
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If people do things without thinking them through, that rubs me up the wrong way.
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Things can be funny when people are uneasy. It softens them up and stops them falling asleep on the sofa. I like those moments where people half-smile and half-wince.
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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
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Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.
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I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.
