John Edwards Quotes
If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.
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There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
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I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is.
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Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
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I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.
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If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.
