Mark Hanna Quotes
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
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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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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Statistics Fiction in its most uninteresting form.
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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
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At the beginning of your career, it's 'Who is Paul Newman?' and then it's 'Get me Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Get me a young Paul Newman.' Then it's 'Who is Paul Newman?'
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Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.
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A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
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Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States!
