Jan Schakowsky Quotes
No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.Jan Schakowsky
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
Walter Salles -
There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
Taron Egerton -
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
Vaclav Havel -
I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
Hannah Kent -
I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
Octavia Spencer -
My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
Patrick Schwarzenegger
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
Venerable Bede -
I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
Famke Janssen -
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer -
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
Karin Slaughter
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
Larry Page -
Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
Natalie Dormer -
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
Randall Munroe
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
Natalie Cole -
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.
Francois Hollande -
The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.
David Milch -
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
Flannery O'Connor -
There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.
Courtney Love -
No military contractors should have a 'shoot first' culture that puts civilians or our brave military service members in danger.
Jan Schakowsky