Kristen Wiig Quotes
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.
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I don't care if it's a preseason game or not. You want to win.
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The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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I want to play someone really dark, like a real bad guy on screen. But I am sure I won't be able to do so because my fans will not let me do it. They are aggressive. My image is such that no one will allow me to do a negative character.
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A liar should have a good memory.
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The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment.
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In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings.
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Even three times a day to offerThree hundred cooking pots of foodDoes not match a portion of the meritIn one instant of love.
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What sustains us in any competition are the moments of interiority when the competition vanishes; what sustains us in any struggle are the moments when we forget the struggle.
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Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. 'What!' he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, 'looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,'-'You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?'
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.
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I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
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I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.
