Clarice Lispector Quotes
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I don't have much choice these days in how I have my hair.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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An undevout astronomer is mad.
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That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
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I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
