Jon Porter Quotes
We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
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What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
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I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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One of the most important things the United States did in the aftermath of World War II was to help returning veterans with housing. In 1945, in my home state of Oregon, we established the Veterans Home Loan Program, which for over 60 years has provided more than 300,000 loans. This has changed the lives of Oregon veterans and revitalized communities.
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No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
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'But you knew them to be evil men-''Was I to join them therefore? To let their acts rule my own? I will not make their choices for them, nor will I let them make mine for me!'
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Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
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Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information.
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We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
