Bill Kristol Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.
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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
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I think there is room out there to show the grace and dignity of women like Laura Bush.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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I had a good mind to discontinue permanently the supply of grain to the city, reliance on which had discouraged Italian agriculture, but refrained because some politician would be bound one day to revive the dole as a means of ingratiating himself with the people.
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It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
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It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.
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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
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Self-government is an experiment. It could still fail.
