Kelly Corrigan Quotes
The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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The core of the consulting business is going in and essentially making yourself indispensible by eating the brain of the organization, meaning that the consultants go in and assume key functions in the organization.
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Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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As a kid I decided that a Canadian accent doesn't sound tough. I thought guys should sound like Marlon Brando. So now I have a phony accent that I can't shake, so it's not phony anymore.
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The truth is, I'd like to be closer to my kids. I'd like to share more with them. But that's not what this time in their lives is about. This is their time to separate, to self-direct, to become independent.
