Dashiell Hammett Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
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Women should come forward to protect other woman, as only a woman can understand the problems of another one.
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We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.
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I like women. I really like women.
