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We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ↗

— George Soros

#defeat #earth #external #getting #most

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing. ↗

— David Friedman

#doing #growing #i #keep #keeps

In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#include #love #love stories #stories #theme

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#any #basic #basic needs #concern #first

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#coin #concepts #constructs #equating #explain

Acting is what happens on the way. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#happens #way

I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#always #before #camera #ever #got

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#career #down #exploitative #getting #gotten

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#first #frustrating #game #going #julia

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#could #emotional #fulfillment #give #give me