Anthony McCarten Quotes
One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I am happy in Paris.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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She said I did good and I think she was happy with what I did. She just wants me to get my higher Start Value vault, which I'll be competing at Trials and, hopefully, the Olympics.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.
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When we start understanding that all challenges are really opportunities to learn and grow and become all that we are becoming, which is all being guided by nature and her desire to maintain perfect balance, then what could be wrong? If there is nothing wrong, then the burden of humanity has been lifted from my shoulder and I'm free to be me - to play, to cry, to laugh, to work, to explore, to serve, to unfold and grow.
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As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.
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In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
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One of the real ways out of conflict is humour. It builds bridges; it's a weapon against rigid ideology, narrow thinking, intolerance.
