Yitzhak Rabin Quotes
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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The happiest people among us are those who can sleep when they want to.
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At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
