John Bruton Quotes
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I just want to do my job.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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My friends love coming over because they get fed.
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Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
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It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.
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The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization, and combating piracy and intellectual property violations.
