Brent Scowcroft Quotes
Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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Only people have been through that miserable time will recall the pass from their deep memory.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.
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Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
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Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
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Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.
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A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.
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Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Anyone who's married to Mariah Carey - I'm pretty sure - doesn't have a great sense of humor. I mean, let's be honest: she's ridiculous. What is her game plan?
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I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint.
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In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
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People in the United States are highly transient. Families move from state to state. So why do we take a full year - in some states, two years - to study state history? It takes time away from more important topics.
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Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
