Alexander Haig Quotes
It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Midi is my hobby.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
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Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and stamina are to be looked for among the cultivators of the land.
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People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
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I went through a lot of battles in high school.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
