Bernard Cornwell Quotes
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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All movies aren't fun; some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
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I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.
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I created DonorsChoose by putting pencil to paper - literally - and sketching out each screen of the web site and how it would work. Then I paid a programmer from Poland $1,500 to turn my sketches and common-sense rules into a functioning website.
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My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
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I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.
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On the highway, I hit a deer. I kept him. He's at home in the garage on the rafters. I'm going to use him for the celebration this weekend. He's a prop. They might suspend me for the last game, but I think this one is worth it. This is going to be the greatest celebration of all time, man. I actually use an animal.
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They thought war was a game and every defeat only made them more eager to play.
