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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.
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In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
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If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
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As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
