Janet Flanner Quotes
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing, making movies.
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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Institutions should focus on educating against clashes of culture and the promotion of a culture of tolerance and peace.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
