Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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I prefer the night to the day and always stay up very late. Darkness is more peaceful, and I don't like sunshine - it hurts my eyes. When I used to live in more communal circumstances, I had to wait until everyone had gone to bed before I had the peace to write, and I still find I can get on with my writing much better at night.
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How many watched the President's speech last night? half-hearted audience applause How many watched American Idol? thundering applause Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart.
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It's not right when we have teachers that are fudging on the test scores because they want to look good.
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The year is dying in the night.
