John Linder Quotes
The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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Practices were tough.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I would strongly recommend any young man to stay away from criminal law. It's not a good place to be, unfortunately.
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
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I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as Libya and Sudan - which have deplorable human rights records, and the recent Oil-for-Food scandal, are just a few examples of why reform is so imperative.
