Jefferson Davis Quotes
...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer.
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'I am more inclined to punish Hurtiancz for his crassness,' said Ildefonse. 'But now he simulates a swinish stupidity to escape my anger.''Absolute falsity!' roared Hurtiancz. 'I simulate nothing!'Ildefonse shrugged. 'For all his deficiencies as polemicist and magician, Hurtiancz at least is candid.'
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I wonder how people decided that women were supposed to shave their legs and armpits.
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The press has made up so much...God...awful, horrifying stories...it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
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The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.
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We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.
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I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.
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...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
