Howard Baker Quotes
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'
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'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
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I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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Basically, I still have the privacy that all celebrities crave, except for those celebrities who feel that privacy reflects some kind of failure on their part.
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
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I think that people have a very strict perception of what a pop artist is.
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The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market.
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I don't watch reality TV much, but sometimes I'll be on the E! channel and see that show "Total Divas", about female wrestlers. It's like, fake tits are de rigueur. Nose jobs are de rigueur. Exaggerated asses are de rigueur. Twerking is de rigueur.
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I make music to make you sick of fake music - hate music like devil worshippin' Satan music. So say your prayers - your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
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When rowan leaves are dank and rusting And rowan berries red as blood, When in my palm the hangman's thrusting The final nail with bony thud, When, over the foul flooding river, Upon the wet grey height, I toss Before my land's grim looks, and shiver As I swing here upon the cross, Then, through the blood and weeping, stretches My dying sight to space remote; I see upon the river's reaches Christ sailing to me in a boat.
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It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.
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You've got to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
