Mao Zedong Quotes
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
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I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
