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Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
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• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
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• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
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• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
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• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

  

  Dana Perino
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• In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine.

  

  J. William Fulbright
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• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
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• The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
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• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

  

  Gary Larson
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• One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• I'm a work in progress.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.

  

  Alessia Cara
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• Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

  

  Varun Dhawan
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• Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.

  

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