Denis Diderot Quotes
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The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, frankly, opportunism.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.
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The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.
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Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.
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I will never be an insider. I want to be the champion of people who don't have insiders and lobbyists supporting them.
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When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.
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Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.
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By exercise. I'll tell you one thing, you don't always have to be on the go. I sit around a lot, I read a lot, and I do watch television. But I also work out for two hours every day of my life, even when I'm on the road.
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On April 16, 2010, 34 Chinese environmental organizations, including Friends of Nature, the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, and Green Beagle, questioned heavy metal pollution in a letter sent to CEO Steve Jobs.
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I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.
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Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!
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I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.
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The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.
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I would have been happy teaching music in schools - I still would be, and I still might be, although I don't know if I'm clever enough.
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You have to make it happen.
