Yuri Gagarin Quotes
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I did anything that would get me on the air.
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We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies.
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The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.
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Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
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For a city or a people to be truly free they must have the secure right, without economic, political or police pressure, to make their own choice and to live their own lives.
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Yesterday, here in Philadelphia, at the Liberty Bell, I met a lot of Americans who do have the will. From arch-religious conservatives to young secular radicals, I just felt an incredible overpowering sense that this was possible. We're calling it the ONE campaign, to put an end to AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa. They believe we can do it, so do I.
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I could have gone on flying through space forever.
