Aimee Mullins Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
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I trust no one - that microphone, that book.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I like musicals and I love music.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.
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It's what every writer needs: a daybed.
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
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I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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The tax on being different is largely implicit. People need not act maliciously for it to be levied. In fact, at its heart is a laudable sentiment: 'prove it to me.' The problem is that we are requiring different levels of proof without realising it.
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Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
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To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.
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Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.
