Bev Perdue Quotes
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.
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Holy cow!
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Mark Udall votes with President Obama 99 percent of the time.
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I'm a huge Trekkie.
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
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I was very clear why we put these companies together and what our goals were. It was really to allow both Sears and Kmart to compete in what I thought was going to be a more challenging but evolving industry.
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From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
