Ian Somerhalder Quotes
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I want to have fun. I'm not interested in being a serious actor, because I think it's boring, and I think we've got plenty of them.
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I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.
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As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.
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Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.
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Comedy requires a lot of energy.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
