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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

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• I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Character
  • Professional
  • Actor

• My fashion statement depends on my mood. I am more of a tomboy when dressing up, and I have never worn pink in my entire life.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Mood

• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• I'm a Taylor Swift fan, definitely.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Fan
  • Swift
  • Taylor

• I've never felt the breath of God – you can take that statement literally or metaphorically – more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Connection
  • Intimate

• "Say whatever you choose about the object, and whatever you might say is not it." Or, in other wordsː "Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not." This negative statement is final, because it is negative.

  

  Alfred Korzybski
  • Say
  • Statement
  • Object

• We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Respect
  • Progress
  • System

• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Great
  • May
  • Communication

• It is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Americans
  • Statement

• I warmly welcome the statement ... that the Kosovo Liberation Army has complied with its commitment to demilitarize.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Welcome
  • Statement

• The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Silence
  • Humility
  • Statement

• It certainly left the door open for additional hikes. The statement was a little more hawkish than people anticipated.

  

  Kevin Cronin REO Speedwagon
  • People
  • Statement
  • Hikes

• If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Find
  • Statement
  • Exposed

• There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Marriage
  • Brave
  • Human being

• When Zach said, "Im going to kill Dr. Steve." It wasn't the angered threat of a worried boy; it was the calm, cool statement of an operative trained to do exactly that. And that, I think, is why it scared me. But it wasn't as terrifying as the look in Bex's eyes when she said, "Not if I find him first.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Kill
  • Worried
  • Statement

• An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient.

  

  Barbara Brennan
  • Patient
  • Statement
  • Diagnosis

• Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

  

  Barry Long
  • Truth
  • Statement

• He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

  

  Bartholomeus Anglicus
  • Lead
  • Merry
  • Swift

• ...a statement from you is more convincing than all the proofs in the world.

  

  Emile Gaboriau
  • Statement
  • Convincing
  • Proofs

• What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

  

  Eva Hesse
  • Statement
  • Center
  • I Don't Know

• This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Way
  • Americans
  • Contribute

• Routine is part of coping.

  

  Lorene Scafaria

• I was a redhead and a middle child; both can make you feel excluded. It's like fighting to be included, in the swim of things. After a while you start to develop a bit of a victim mentality, which isn't great for a happy life.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Life
  • Children
  • Fighting

• Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

  

  Will Durant
  • Statement
  • Swift