"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."

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"I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14."

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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

B. C. Forbes, Scottish Journalist

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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"He not busy being born is busy dying."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Being is more important than doing."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."

Performance

"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"

Conversation

"I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous."

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"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

Mother

"I like to take a character and develop it."

Character

"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."

Play

"Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life."

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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"He not busy being born is busy dying."

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"I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine."

"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"

"I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous."

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

"I like to take a character and develop it."

"I'd like to play characters who are older - I don't want to be playing 14-year-olds too much longer."

"Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life."

"But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter."

"My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird."

"My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years."