Alan Rusbridger Quotes
There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it's too short. It's too short.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'
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All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.
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It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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There are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
