Paul Bloom Quotes
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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Does [America] realize the meaning of every Iraqi becoming a missile that can cross to countries and cities?
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The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
