Monica Crowley Quotes
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
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I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.
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Thug: repeating Look, bud, I said 'Your money or your life.'
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I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.
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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
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I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
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Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I think it's because it was an emotional story, and emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Colour is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn't necessarily reach the heart.
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I think I have a reputation for being really serious. In interviews I use big words, but I'm just an emotional goofball. I play practical jokes all the time.
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Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
