Genghis Khan Quotes
The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.
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How do you trust a government whose people are proved to be untrustworthy?
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The hideous god of war.
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I've been doing a lot of drama, but I feel like comedy is my strength.
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The strength of a wall is neither greater nor less than the courage of the men who defend it.
