Freya Stark Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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I've never really had bad chemistry with anybody. And I think you just really have to be open.
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She spoke with a different sort of determination, calmer, as if it were no longer necessary to fight to the death for every little thing.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
