Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Brit Marling One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Barack Obama One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Carl Sagan One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Smith One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • William Feather One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Oliver Stone One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
    Oliver Stone
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Callie Khouri One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Byron Howard One of the magical things about these anthropomorphic animal movies is that we can take things that are so common in our own world that we deal with, like the DMV, or moving to a new city, or our family, and show you a mirror image of those things, reflected in a whole new way. That's why animals are great.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Brad Falchuk One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brandon Routh One of the most amazing things I got from the film, so much green screen, there are so many moments and it really taught me about how important it is to have an intention when flying, when going somewhere and having an intention.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.
    Source: Jung and the Story of Our Time, Laurens van der Post (1977)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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