Washington Irving Quotes
My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
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Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I don't care about having money. It's about being happy, man.
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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
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My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.
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My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.
