Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
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I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
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In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
