Jim Irsay Quotes
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.
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The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.
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You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.
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There's a darkness to Riddick that I think allows people to want him to do bad things because you know Riddick is going to do bad things: that's just the way it is. But I think that at his core, who he is and what he's fighting for is something that everybody can identify with.
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You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
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When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
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Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.
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If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.
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Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.
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I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
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Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
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Both grandfathers fought in different wars. My mother's father fought in World War II, and then my father's father fought in Korea. And they're both these country boys, one from rural Tennessee and one from rural Louisiana - and they never went back home.
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We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
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I have a photographic memory for numbers.
