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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

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• During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

  

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• I love red or deep purple lips for events.

  

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• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

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• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

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• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

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• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

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• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

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• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.

  

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• I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

  

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• I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.

  

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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

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• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

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• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

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• I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.

  

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• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

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• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

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• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

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• I didn't intend to go into the seminar business.

  

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• I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

  

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• I like a girl that keeps me in love and keeps me entertained.

  

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• If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that.

  

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• So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

  

  Barack Obama
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