Tawakkol Karman Quotes
Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Young Joel Benenson supported - well, I - you know, look, I supported Bobby Kennedy, not Eugene McCarthy in '68. I mean, that's where I landed.
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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Straight people are everywhere!
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I love writing songs with people, which is about really taking risks, throwing yourself over the falls and really seeing what you're made of and seeing how it sticks. Seeing how others react to it, and seeing also how it can become a melody and how it can really take off from your experience. It's a way of seeing life unfold on the page before me.
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Requiring governments to make all publicly held information and data available to people - thus giving citizens a powerful tool to expose corruption - is just one aspect of the accountability revolution that can be unleashed if the report’s recommendations are implemented in full.
