Xander Berkeley Quotes
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
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My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer.
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People who call me reality queen or whatever don't help me run my house. If I get a good project, I'll definitely pick it up because today I'm famous; tomorrow, maybe I'd be gone.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
