Dakota Fanning Quotes
I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I think that you can love people without it being the great love.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The misperception about the South is that everybody is racist, and all black people are victims, that what was prevalent in the '60s is only relegated to the South.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I have found that women have so much unleashed power that they don't really utilize because they don't have confidence in themselves about who they are and what they can do.
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I'm Phil Knight, and I don't believe in advertising.
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Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.
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I think that when you’re in the public eye, you automatically become a role model, because people are reading about you and looking at pictures of stuff you’ve done. But, you know, no one’s perfect, everyone makes mistakes. I have made mistakes and I will make mistakes. I’m only human.
