Ed Royce Quotes
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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I love women more than anything.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss.' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
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I think the main thing is to give your best regardless of whether you're the captain or not.
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What I am condemning is that one power, with a president George W. Bush who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.
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My oldest brother was a big influence on the films I watched as a kid.
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You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.
Biz Stone -
The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.