Ramsey Clark Quotes
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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While I began writing 'Rules of Civility' in 2006, the genesis of the book dates back to the early 1990s, when I happened upon a copy of 'Many Are Called,' the collection of portraits that Walker Evans took on the New York City subways in the late 1930s with a hidden camera.
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I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.
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Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming again a few years later still is one of those things which are not satisfactorily to be explained and are therefore jolly and exciting and an addition to the perennial interest of life.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
