Addison Wiggin Quotes
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.
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When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
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I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.
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Probably Lloyd in 'Say Anything' is the closest to me - or to who I was at the time. It was just a great love story about people in the '80s, and we all tried to make it feel as real as possible. It was such a wonderful time. We didn't leave anything in the gym; we put it all out there.
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I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.
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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
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Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.
