Havens Quotes - Page 24

• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• I believe you can't be an actor if you haven't had the feeling of being abandoned as a child.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Children, Believe, Feelings

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• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Waiting, Waste, Wasting Time

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• A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

  Richard Eberhart

  Suicide, Littles, Invited

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• I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.

  Jude Deveraux

  Book, Character, Want

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• God knows, I haven't always been successful.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Successful, God Knows, Knows

  "Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm not unapproachable'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

  John Larroquette

  Actors, Done, Broadway

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

  Philip Johnson

  Believe, Rivers, Steps

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same. We've obviously made some changes. When we started, it was all about food, clothing and shelter. Now we watch 'Top Chef', 'Project Runway', and 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

  Colin Hay

  Home, People, Watches

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• I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

  Geena Davis

  Gone, Meetings

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• I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Thinking, Print Media

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• There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

  Kathy Ireland

  Birth Control, Argument, Found

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• Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

  Kim Wilde

  Sex, Long, Doe

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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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• I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

  Alberto Salazar

  Wise, Stress, Heart

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.

  Chuck D

  Labels, Majors

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• 25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

  Mark Messier

  Winning, Night, Years

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• I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

  Helen Hunt

  Home, Kids, Done

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• I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

  Patrick Ewing

  Years, Coaching, Assistants

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• I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

  Cameron Diaz

  Trying, Worried, Projects

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• I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

  Cameron Diaz

  Thinking, Opposites, Play

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• One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.

  Gus Van Sant

  Different, Realising, Shocked

  "All the world's an art school" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2004.

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• I haven't been in tennis for that long, but what I can say is that we have a lot of young guys at the top who are willing to do a lot of good things for tennis in general.

  Novak Djokovic

  Long, Tennis, Guy

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• I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

  Tim Roth

  Thinking, Years, Actors

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