Emma Thompson Quotes
During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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Every wall is a door.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
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I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
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With the policymaking process, you have an idea, and you try to sell other stakeholders on the idea. That's not much different than in business, where you're trying to find capital to make your idea a reality.
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I've got to be right on top of the action, or else all those people watching the game will say, 'This guy's not very good.'
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While we [people] keep putting a face on HIV and AIDS, I think what we forget is that there are human beings, just people with emotions and feelings, women who want to be loved, men who want to be loved, who want to feel something.
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During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
