Peter Abelard Quotes
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages - they haven't ended yet.
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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
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Logic has made me hated in the world.
