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The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I love my sleep.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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You have a burden going into any campaign when you're raising money to fund that effort because there's always a desire to spend more money than you have.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.
