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Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I'm thinking about recording everything to tape like it's 1991 and seeing how that sounds.
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Mr. Obama is the first president to have grown up in the region - he lived in Indonesia as an elementary school student - and he has never doubted that America is underinvested in Asia and overinvested in the Middle East.
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Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.
