Dan Rather Quotes
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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Ryan is my bridge to the past, to memories that lose some of their sting when he recounts them.
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The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.
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One of the best movies of the year was 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes.' That's not just an action movie - it's a prison film.
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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It's dangerous to be anybody popular.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.
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Your associates can be priceless.
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Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.
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Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.
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All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.
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To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.
