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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton
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Globalization could be the answer to many of the world`s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice".
Sharan Burrow
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Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.
Margaret Culkin Banning
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Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
James D. Watson
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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar
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Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe
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What conditions of work, what kinds of work, what kinds of management, and what kinds of reward or pay will help human stature to grow healthy, to its fuller and fullest stature ? Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of hum
Abraham Maslow
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
G.K. Chesterton
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If I based all of my decisions on what everyone else had to say, I wouldn`t be where I am now. You`d drive yourself crazy trying to please everyone else. In this business people always have something to say about what you`re doing. Sometimes it`s positive...
Tina Majorino
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(asked if "The Story of Mankind" was based on a book): "Yes. But they are using only the notes on the dust jacket."
Ronald Colman
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All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that`s for sure, no matter who.
Javier Bardem
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Before, I used to think that everything was based on race. Now class matters just as much. If you are a poor person: black, white, Latino, whatever, the Bush Administration does not have your best interests at heart. If the Government thought poor people ...
Spike Lee
Keywords: administration :: are :: as :: at :: based :: before :: best :: black :: bush :: class :: does :: everything :: government :: have :: heart :: if :: interests :: just :: latino :: mattered :: matters :: much :: not :: now :: on :: people :: person :: poor :: race :: that :: the :: think :: thought :: to :: used :: was :: whatever :: white :: you :: yourSource: imdb.com
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Every bad decision I`ve made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don`t turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it`s all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was w...
Eddie Murphy
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On Valmont (1989): "We were in the middle of our script already when they announced their version, based on the play. Of course we immediately learned they were rushing into it very fast. With the concept I had, we all knew I couldn`t be faster. We couldn...
Milos Forman
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I [showed] my tits and teeth. I`m useless at it. About 40 per cent of success as an actor is now based on whether you`re good at being interviewed and how you conduct yourself. And I`m really bad at that. On the Vanity Fair premiere
Romola Garai
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I actually am starting to feel I should start a revolution against heels, even though that wouldn`t be a dramatic revolution. Everyone around me says, `You have to wear heels.` It`s based on some silly concept that longer legs are more beautiful.
Natalie Portman
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I just don`t believe in love at first sight any more, even though I`ve based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It`s something that I`ve always exploited - with good results.
Hugh Grant
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When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it. My technique, which differs from film to film, is wholly instinctive and never based on prior considerations.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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America is certainly starting to look outward at last. The impact of its actions and the world`s attitude towards them is being thrown in its face. My film is only based on what I`ve torn from the newspaper headlines. It`s just that maybe I read more clos...
Andrew Niccol
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My favorite part of the interview is the 401 assumptions before you`ve even started speaking, based on what you`re wearing, what you`ve chosen to eat, how the waiter looks at you.
Eric Bana
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[on hate sites regarding her and her role in Harry Potter] "This kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans - millions of them - so I`m nor surprised some of them don`t like me. But I don`t think it`s all based on jealousy. I`m not go...
Katie Leung
Keywords: all :: and :: based :: because :: but :: dan :: don :: fans :: female :: going :: harry :: has :: hate :: her :: in :: inevitable :: is :: it :: jealousy :: kind :: like :: many :: me :: millions :: nor :: not :: of :: on :: potter :: regarding :: role :: sa :: sites :: so :: some :: stuff :: surprised :: them :: think :: this :: toSource: imdb.com
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It is a very tricky situation when you get the chance to work in English films. I do films based on characters, not to get an entry into Hollywood or whatever. In English, my Bride & Prejudice did well world over. I don`t know how it did in Hindi, but I k...
Aishwarya Rai
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[opon seeing Sigmund Freud`s therapy couch] It was a very tiny little thing. All his theories were based on the analysis of very short people!
Billy Wilder
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I`m flattered if someone comes to me with the idea of remaking one of my films. Remake or original, making a movie still comes down to old-fashioned hard work. If it`s based on another film, well, so be it. Remakes have been part of cinema since its earli...
John Carpenter
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The writers spent a lot of time getting to know us, so our characters are based on what we`re like in real life. [The Suite Life of Zack and Cody`s writers]
Dylan Sprouse
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[on playing a pedophile in The Woodsman (2004)] I don`t have people who would advise me against this based on some sort of "image". At some point you have to decide if you`re going to be a personality or you`re going to be an actor. If playing this kind o...
Kevin Bacon
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In my opinion--and I think I know as much if not more about Bond than anyone, particularly about the characters on whom [Ian Fleming] told me Bond was based--Pierce Brosnan was by far the best and closest to the character.
Christopher Lee
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Borat is based actually on a guy I met in southern Russia. I can`t remember his name. He was a doctor. The moment I met him I was totally crying. He was a hysterically funny guy, albeit totally unintentionally.
Sacha Baron Cohen
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His thoughts on Parineeta (2005): "Performance wise it has given me a lot to explore. The film is set in the 60s. Whenever I think of the 60s, I think of my father. My character is based on him. Parineeta has me playing an oppressed son. He finally rebels...
Saif Ali Khan
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On his role in The Darwin Awards (2006): I play a silly drunk rich person who tries to have sex with his wife in his Winnebago and crashes. It`s all based on a true story, except that in reality they weren`t English. I have a theory that in the US if ther...
Tom Hollander
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