John Stossel Quotes
I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I try to reciprocate and to give back to the fans with my performances, like a big 'thank you' for the love they show me.
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I remember giving birth in Bromley Hospital annexe. It was painful. Zowie was 8 lb. 8 oz. David was there the whole time. It was the first and only time I saw David cry.
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My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
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I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.
