Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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I've been doing pranks my whole life, so I guess I'm pretty good at it.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
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We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
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It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
