Ian McDiarmid Quotes
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.
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Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
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We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
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The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.
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Once stock prices reach the point at which it is hard to value them by logical methodology, stocks will be bought as they were in the late 1920s not for investment but to be unloaded at a still higher price. The ensuing break could be disastrous because panic psychology cannot be summarily altered or reversed by easing money policies.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
