Walter Bagehot Quotes
So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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Our Bollywood stars who talk of being part of 100 crore films, I think I belong to the 1,000 crore club.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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I got a big mouth.
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Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
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We have been criticized, a little bit to my surprise, by people who think I was not enough pro-war. That is simply not the way I think of this role. This role is designed to question the behavior of government officials on behalf of the public. I think people who have done this and all jobs in journalism have believed that.
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
