Herodotus Quotes
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
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Plus léger qu'un bouchon j'ai dansé sur les flots.
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Exxon, one of the companies that has spent tens of millions of dollars denying climate change, denying any responsibility to deal with, taking government subsidies on a massive scale, now their ads are all about, 'Oh, we want a clean future. We're looking at clean energy and all that stuff.'
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
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If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.
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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.
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I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
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In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal aliens living in an illegal building. At that time, some artists started to move to SoHo, and they put A.I.R. - artists-in-residence - up on their windows.
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Many different guitar players have different levels of natural talent. It all comes down to the guitarists’ upbringing and who they are as a person. It all factors in to a certain extent.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.
