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There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.

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• Americans want to believe that we are a nation of laws, and no one is above them, including the president. Mr. Trump's and his associates' actions during his campaign and during his brief time in office are extremely troubling.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Believe
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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
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• There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
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• I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.

  

  Sally Pearson
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• I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • School
  • Why
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• How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Quality
  • Answer
  • Improve

• On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines.

  

  Nat Friedman
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• All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents' wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Friends
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• My dad always associated information with liberation. He was very much in that Malcolm X tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Dad
  • Information
  • Very

• I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, 'I know I just had my baby three weeks ago, and that's why I'm emotional, but I cried when you performed.' And then she pulled out a tissue and said, 'Look, I was sobbing.'

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Life

• Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Doubt

• When I don't have an answer, I pray. God is the only alternative source of help.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
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• 'Estos días azules y este sol de infancia'

  

  Antonio Machado

• She's not a legend. She's a beginner. What is this 'legend'? She can't be a legend at whatever age she is. She can't be a legend, you have to be older.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • She
  • Age
  • Legend

• I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

  

  Jenny Downham
  • People
  • Family
  • Cancer

• The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.

  

  Benton MacKaye
  • Problem
  • Liberty

• توانا بود هر که دانا بود

  

  Ferdowsi

• In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.

  

  Joe Bob Briggs
  • Words

• Your real wealth can be measured not by what you have but by who you are.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Wealth
  • Have

• The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Sun

• There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession.

  

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