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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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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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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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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.
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The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.
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The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.
