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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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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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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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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As far as the Congress is concerned, we condemn any attempts to oppress the Dalits in strongest terms. If there are parties trying to fan the OBC-Dalit divide in Tamil Nadu, we need to collectively condemn them.
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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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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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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 kept getting told, 'You need to bulk up. Burgers and shakes. Burgers and shakes.' That's never been my thing.
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To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.
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The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.
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Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
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Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.
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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'.
