Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.
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But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude and direction and to combine according to the parallelogram law; and many of them are not at all reminiscent of journeys.
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Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
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My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities to do. He was kind of goofy and fun. But at the same time, he had a lot of lessons to teach us so that we didn't grow up and just not be good people. I try and reflect a lot on how I was raised by my father in the character that I'm playing now in being a dad. You've got to be strong for these kids. You also have to be fun and teach them all the lessons, not just one, or two, or three.
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The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
