Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
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There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain - it's going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.
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My job is to rectify the public finances and hand the country back to the people so they can really have a future, and that is what I will do.
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'Superman/Wonder Woman,' people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasn't emotionally deep. Who knows?
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If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).
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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people. (5 November 1958)
