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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
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I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.
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I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
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Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
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I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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I'm a rather crude cook.
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The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
