Edwin Clarence Riegel Quotes
Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.
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We cut tax exemptions in 1986, it was the most admired tax reform in U.S. history. Congress and the president worked together then to eliminate scores of loopholes and exemptions and deductions; this made taxes much simpler, and allowed a major cut in tax rates.
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School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.
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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least from my experience, I have a dozen or so British friends who are actors, and if you look at their body of work, and they'll go do theatre, and they'll go do this and this. They work, and they're always honing and trying to be better.
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Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and, since man cannot be sovereign without the money power, there can not be democracy under the political money system.
