Denis Healey Quotes
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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I spent my whole childhood watching open-wheel racing. I spent years going to England and racing open wheel, coming back and racing open wheel. It's been my world for 20 years and beyond that. For almost my whole life, I've been watching it. I watch it and I think I know how to do it.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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When we think about the past, we think, 'It must have been so boring.' It's actually not.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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We're a rock group. We're noisy, rowdy, sensational and weird.
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I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
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Talking about theater, actually, I built a little barn in upstate New York, and I call it 'the smallest theater in the world,' but it has a mini stage and a red velvet curtain.
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In England, I suppose I have been known to once or twice tune into 'Big Brother', which is a pretty terrible guilty pleasure.
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Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.
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First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
