Chaka Fattah Quotes
Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.Chaka Fattah
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.
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I thought I'd just do a wave of movies, and then I'd burn out. They just kept coming together.
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When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
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Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.
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There's no shame in being crazy.
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Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.
Chaka Fattah
