T.R. Reid Quotes
Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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Mundra Port remains committed towards setting up of world-class port infrastructure and facilities in India.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.
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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
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See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.
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When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.
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A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory - and very few eyes can see the mystery of life - a life like the Scriptures, figurative... Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I'm not afraid of falling and getting up the next day with a few bumps and bruises.
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
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I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.
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Corporations use all sorts of complex stratagems to move their profits overseas, and thus escape the U.S. income tax.
