“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.”
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“After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.”
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“The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes - forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups - is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having bee...”
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“What's the greatest advice I give? Develop excellent communication skills.”
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“I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.”
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“I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.”
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“I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.”
“We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.”
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“In most mills, only the best portions of the best trees are used, while the ruins are left on the ground to feed great fires which kill much of what is left of the less desirable timber, tog...”
“I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn't know. I really didn't get any nausea. I didn't have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half.”
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“When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.”
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“Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.”
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“I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.”
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“Love is not in our choice but in our fate.”
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“Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.”
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“I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.”
“Personal interests have no importance compared to national interests.”
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“From its conception, I wanted Bumble's culture to match its values. If women were taking charge on our app, then they'd be running the show behind the scenes, too.”
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“Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.”
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“It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.”
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“As an artist, you want as many people as possible to see your work with no interference. And usually, I've gone onto fringe channels: BBC Two, HBO, Channel 4.”
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“Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries ar...”
“Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.”
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“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”
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“I'm into clothes, but in a way that's related to wanting to walk into a film noir movie. You know, I love to go to vintage stores, but mostly it's stuff that I don't have anywhere to wear......”
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“To be a conscientious human is real karma.”
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“There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety...”
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“I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After tha...”
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“Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system....”
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“I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.”
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“Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.”
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“It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.”
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“As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.”
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“My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My...”
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“In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain”
“I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.”
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“Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.”
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“Spilled Ink It seemed unfair And unfinished, And now it would always be tragic. Because you kept Loving them Even when the story ended. And there was nowhere To spill the ink Of the heartbre...”
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“I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.”
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“They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.”
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“If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotiz...”
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“If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.”
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“If we continue to fight the National Rifle Association on their home court, which is the legislative front, I think we'll continue to be frustrated. But when you have an ability to go direct...”
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“Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been...”
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“Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the wri...”
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“Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked.”
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“After one year in the Texas League, the American League bought the rights to my contract. They optioned me back to the Texas League for the 1970 season.”
“When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.”
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“Whatever the obstacle, you can overcome it and achieve success as long as you just keep moving forward.”
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