John Ashcroft Quotes
The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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There have been a number of times where this team could have said we're out of it and given up. It got to the point where our backs were against the wall and the players responded. That's says a lot about their character.
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It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there's a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can't sing and they can't dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!
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I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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I think George Foreman must have gained about 350 lbs and is slow as ever.
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The last time I looked at September 11th, an American street was a war zone. There was a street in Virginia that was a war zone.
