Richard Lugar Quotes
The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she'll appear in film and it won't work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don't know.
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The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I don't take care of my voice at all, which is one reason that I sound as bad as I do.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
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Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
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Broadly shared progress can be achieved with policies that are designed specifically to benefit consumers and workers. And such policies need not even include redistributive taxation, which many workers oppose. Rather, they can focus on ways to encourage competition and discourage rent-seeking.
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I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
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If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.
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Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.
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For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can't calm my face down, and so it's really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.
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I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make – believe.
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The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.
