William A. Rusher Quotes
I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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You can stroke people with words.
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In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
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The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.
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Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
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Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree.
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
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I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.
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I think the important thing to remember about the Japanese internment is the situation. We had been attacked. Maybe Roosevelt expected it - I rather think he did. I don't think he expected an attack on Pearl Harbor. I think he expected an attack on Southeast Asia. But we were attacked at Pearl Harbor
