Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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I still love recording and still love the stage, but like my dad, I have the most fun when I am in front of that glorious orchestra or that kick-butt big band.
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I'm trying my best.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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I want to make sure the people we elect to office believe in America.
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To guarantee success, spend 95% of your time defining the problem and 5% of the time solving it.
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I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.
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Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
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Cruel necessity.
