Confucius Quotes
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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No man may make another free.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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When I was growing up, radio DJs were celebrities, not just the people singing the songs.
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I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.
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When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.
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As a young man, Bill Clinton was one of thousands of leftist students who benefited from KGB funds, earning one of those trips to the USSR which were the preferred means for the recruitment of Soviet agents in the universities of the West. In the 60s, that would be deterrent enough for any application for town mayor of the interior. In the 90s, after three decades of Gramscian cultural revolution, the dangerous links did not prevent Clinton from being elected US president with the support of the American Communist Party. Thanks to a well-calculated "politically correct" speech, the new ruler became an idol of the left, which moved heaven and earth to keep him in office despite a range of charges, including sexual frivolities, financial imbroglios and a multitude of small Watergates, including something perfectly serious and terrifying: the suspicion of favoring Chinese nuclear espionage. The well-thinking press resisted any investigation of the matter.
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I applied to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and didn't get in the first year, so I worked at Costa and the Dean Gallery Cafe then applied again and got in the next year when I was 18. I was so excited.
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A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.
