Barbara Walters Quotes
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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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How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle or the presidential race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney? I don't know. But I think the so-called social issues were front and center in the minds of voters. These issues may indeed have lost the Republicans some elections.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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In Bollywood, we are told exactly what to do and how to do it and not to counter things by saying there's a better way. We make our actors feel important by paying them more. But the real deal is when you let the actors take some decisions on the sets.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.
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Uncovering that behaviour was a very dark moment. Determining what to do about it was easy. In life and business, when things go wrong, I believe that you have to accept responsibility and take the next step. When you falter, you need to face forward
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The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
