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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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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'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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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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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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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them. And I was very grateful.
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We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!
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There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.
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Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.
