Jane Fonda Quotes
The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
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Europe can be saved.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Women are sacred.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I don't care much for the cities.
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When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.
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So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.
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I'm only going to make investments with people that I'd want to spend time with anyway.
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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
