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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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
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I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.
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Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.
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I'm totally obsessed with Tilda Swinton. She has this strange, beautiful sexiness about her. I love everything she does. And I love her hair. It was a little bit of an inspiration for mine.
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I think it's a fallacy that only people in elected office can come up with solutions that solve our problems. I just think maybe there's a different paradigm.
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Winners have standards.
