Eddie Mair Quotes
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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'Material' is meant to be a fun, lighthearted song about the tiny bit of materialism that's in all of us. The message is meant to translate the notion that you don't need luxury items to feel special; you already are special.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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What we do with the information now is up to us, but certainly I have a lot of respect for the courage and integrity that was required for [Edard Snowden] to take that action.
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When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear skirts. It tormented me. When I was 6, I even heard that you could change your sex, and I was very intrigued until the moment I realized that if I changed into a girl, I would be an ugly girl, and this is the last thing I wanted to be.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitments to human rights and democracy and should try to influence other countries to move in that direction.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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...and if you want to see a picture of Nils.
