John Podhoretz Quotes
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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No one person is an island.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
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I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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Science fiction tends to be philosophy for stupid people.
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I'm pretty interested in documentary film, and I'd watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon 'shoot interviews' and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.
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Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
