Harlan Stone Quotes
There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
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People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
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I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.
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There is grim irony in speaking of the freedom of contract of those who, because of their economic necessities, give their service for less than is needful to keep body and soul together.
