Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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So, I understand when they make a mistake and everyone at home is throwing their shoe at the television set.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
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Time is a waste of money.
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I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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…jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..
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It's really important for your team to be not just feel empowered but actually be empowered.
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I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.
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Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.
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Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole, because I play the trumpet and sing. I'd like to incorporate that into a character.
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In New Zealand we had this colossal squid, which was discovered just off the shores of New Zealand, between New Zealand and Antarctica back in 2003. It's the biggest squid ever found, and I know that there's things living down in the depths of the ocean that do explain the Kraken - you know, these giant things that people saw back in the day, that could take ships down - and so I know that there's stuff out there, and I like the idea that we haven't solved everything yet.
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The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.
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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
