Alison Assiter Quotes
I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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Does the imam have a legal right to build the mosque at Ground Zero? The answer is yes. But is it the right thing to do? The answer is no. And most Americans, and most moderate Muslims, join with me in that call.
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We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.
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I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.
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I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.
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I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
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I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.
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Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
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Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.
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I believe that a concept that may have some flaws is nonetheless important as a tool to critique abuses on all sides of the political spectrum. In the end, I think that a more useful 'universal' concept than that of a 'right', though, is a 'need'.
