Kent Conrad Quotes
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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People have to evolve.
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Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.
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It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.
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Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the psychic toll those experiences left was immense. I knew the stories of the Cultural Revolution before knowing what the Cultural Revolution was.
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I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
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I also have a lot of preserved foods, things that will keep for a long time like dried fish, seaweed or lotus seed.
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The best way to carve is not to split.
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Nobody can tell me where I can and can't go.
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The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
