Nora Volkow Quotes
When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.
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The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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What's in my pocket?You never knewYou didn't know me wellSo well, as I knew you
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God is never early and never late.
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There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
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If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.
