Bill Kristol Quotes
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
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But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
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Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
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I feel like through martial arts I'm able to face my fears head on. It makes me not run away from challenges in life. I'm able to transfer my martial arts training over to other challenges. To be able to conquer your fears is the best feeling in the world.
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Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
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With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It's just about this object, and if you're trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.
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Winners have standards.
