Valerie Plame Quotes
Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I try to stay focused.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.
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Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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Does this country really exist?
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You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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The best thing government can do now is get out of the way and let small businesses innovate, hire and grow. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to happen unless Washington stops increasing regulations, taxes and other blocks to business growth.
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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
