Adelaide Clemens Quotes
Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.
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It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.
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It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
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If I look confused it is because I am thinking.
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
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Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.
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Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.
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Richie is the only one of my nine who's really moved away. I can't get rid of most of them.
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I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
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Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.