Elisabeth Shue Quotes
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I remember back in the early '70s, when I had a disastrous Grand Prix, my wife, Lynn, said to me, 'Don't worry, you're going to be a late boomer.' That's what she said to me, and I've always held that thought.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.
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That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
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Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over, throw up for hours, and have little people pounding in your head with hammers, it is sheer bliss just to eat a piece of toast, walk outside without getting dizzy, and breathe fresh air. Part of the journey toward joy involves not waiting around for trouble, but being continuously aware of our blessings.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.
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Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
