Bulent Ecevit Quotes
Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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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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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big band within 500 miles and that I could do what I wanted to do. And they said I could.
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I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.
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Although we dealt decisively with all terrorist organizations, we at the same time not only maintained, preserved our democracy, but kept improving it.
