Rick Tumlinson Quotes
When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.
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The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.
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Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.
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Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.
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A fine line separates Chinese intellectuals and professors from the political gangsters who protect them.
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To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.
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Man is by nature a political animal.
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There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
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I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.
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When I first came to Playboy, I thought I would go on and do something else in a few years. But when the company got into trouble with political and regulatory challenges, I felt that I could really lead the turn around.
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I know what motivated you was not just a political campaign. It was your love of our country.
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It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America - was one of fear, and trust of government. Because we put ourselves in the hands of the authority who was going to protect us. And, you know, we gave up a lot of our liberties to Homeland Security, etc.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.
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Actors love to act all those death scenes.
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When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.
