Walter Lippmann Quotes
The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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Representation is a sort of surveillance.
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A lot of people will look at you and will fail to see your beauty because you're covered up and they're not used to it. So growing up, I just had to work on my people skills and give people a chance to really know me besides the clothing.
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I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.
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I was shying away from acting for the longest time - because of having such big shoes to fill.
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
