Haile Selassie Quotes
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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I was realizing, 'I work out all the time. Why can't I drop this weight?' It's really food. So I started dieting a little.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.
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We are a business, and you do a little of what you think's right, pay your bills, and attract... a single record attracts attention to your concerts and your albums.
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There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
