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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Women are sacred.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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Coffee makes me go crazy.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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None of us can claim to be fair and square in love - and I'm definitely not a hypocrite! Humans are built to evolve with time. It depends on the nature of the relationship you share with a person. It is there today, tomorrow it may be gone; c'est la vie.
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
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Mexico has experimented with political change since the late 1980s.
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You may twist the word freedom as long as you please, but at last it comes to quiet enjoyment of your own property, or it comes to nothing. Why do men want any of those things that are called political rights and privileges? Why do they, for instance, want to vote at elections for members of parliament? Oh! Because they shall then have an influence over the conduct of those members. And of what use is that? Oh! Then they will prevent the members from doing wrong.
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All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.
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As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
