Rudyard Kipling Quotes
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I've always said, 'If you need Viagra, you're probably with the wrong girl.'
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I retweet. I do retweet a lot. I don't have a lot of very original things to say.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth.
