Madeleine Albright Quotes
John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.
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Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
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Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.
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I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.
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John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].
