David Axelrod Quotes
I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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It's impossible for any institution to compete unless you can afford world class faculty.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.
