Janet Flanner Quotes
I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
Pat Buchanan
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
Rachel Dratch
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
Edmund Phelps
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
Gary Bauer
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
M.I.A.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
Dan O'Brien
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
Jack Davenport
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
Jack Scalia
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
Natalie Massenet
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
Barbara Palvin
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Salman Rushdie
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I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?
Samuel P. Huntington
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts
The Rolling Stones
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My two best friends, they love amusement parks. They are such roller-coaster daredevils, and they drag me on every single roller coaster they can find. Some of my favorite experiences have been when they've taken me to Disneyland or Six Flags or Universal.
Katherine McNamara
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Oscar Wilde
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What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.
E. J. Dionne
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
Omari Hardwick
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I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.
Janet Flanner
