Valerie Plame Quotes
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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To be is to do.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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Fear-based faith combined with groupthink subconsciously restricts our ability and willingness to consider answers that are beyond the limited, usually binary, options fear presents to us. False binary options tend to go hand in hand with tribalism, and breaking free from the latter will lead you to rejecting the former....and we ultimately want to break free from how the group thinks.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
