James M. Barrie Quotes
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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In the U.K., we're surrounded by American accents. Anything we watch in television. We have 'How I Met Your Mother' and all these other shows here, so it's not something that's really alien to us.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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Kids don't hesitate to ask questions. And it's a great honor to have the kids say, 'Your books have made me trust you.'
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On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'
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I talk to all the creative directors today, and they take me aside, and they say, 'You know, it must have been great back in those days when you could do anything you wanted.' I say, 'Huh? Excuse me?' I mean, we fought. In the '60s and '70s, you fought wars with clients, and you have to continue fighting wars to do great work.
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to get more qualified judges. We need infrastructural reforms. All of our laws need to be re-examined by a law reform commission.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
