Oliver North Quotes
The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
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To be is to do.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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We in no way are naive to think that just because Russia and the United States agree to reduce their arsenals, that everyone else will fall in line.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
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I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
