William Bennett Quotes
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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The approaches to bridges are at the greatest risk of scouring from the storm surge. The National Guard is going to take a Hummer with satellite communications and drive all the way down to Mile Marker 0. They're just waiting for the winds to start dropping.
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Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
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I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
