Michael Isikoff Quotes
If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I don't feel closeted.
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I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wouldn't write about it so much.
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Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
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I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.
