Bill Kristol Quotes
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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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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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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 wouldn't blow my head off. I'd overdose or do something that didn't hurt. But I wouldn't do that to the children. A comedian who committed suicide in the Sixties left a note saying, 'Too many things went wrong too often.' I often think about that.
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The future might have been crammed with miracles and wonders, but it also offered truly awesome opportunities for screwing up.
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I was born and raised in the Bronx, and growing up here, you would go down the block, and on one corner you would hear bachata, on another corner some salsa, and of course there was hip-hop and R&B all over the place. So for me, it is very organic to have these combinations.
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Trump was elected in part because enough Americans viewed him as a capable and strong leader, someone who is 'decisive' and 'competent.'
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I spent my entire youth being in love with gay men because they were the most interesting and compassionate people I knew.
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It is my biggest regret that I let my marriage to Erica fail. It is what it is, and she is doing an incredible job with the kids, and we are in a great place.
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Winners have standards.
