Maria Shriver Quotes
I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.
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Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.
