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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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 wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
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The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
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Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.
