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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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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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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Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
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In the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.
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With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.
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I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
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I think science fiction gives us a wonderful toolkit to disassemble and reexamine this kind of incomprehensible, constantly changing present that we live in, that we often live in quite uncomfortably.
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The impact of low interest rates is broad and deep. Many Americans rely on interest income from their savings to help cover their cost of living.
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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.
