Martin Bashir Quotes
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.
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I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
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When half the people believe one thing, and the other half another, it is usually safe to accept either opinion. The Democrats are as good as the Republicans, and the Catholics as good as the Protestants.
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The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Your mind is all you truly have.
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I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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Hell, that's why they make erasers.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.
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If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.
