Adena Friedman Quotes
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The Government of Iraq also owes a debt to the American and coalition forces who are fighting the insurgency and helping put that country back together after decades of repression.
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If this be treason, make the most of it!
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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I don't get sick of being naked, but the added pressure is staying in really good shape, because naked shape is a different kind of shape than just regular TV shape. Regular, having-your-clothes-on TV shape is intense, but naked TV shape is, I mean, you really have to watch what you eat.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.
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Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.
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I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'
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If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.
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We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
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The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.
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Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
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We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
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The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons and, you know, like the sun disappearing from the world. Winter is coming. It would have been so expensive the way we would have needed to do it, had we known that the apocalypse was coming.
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Be the optimist in the room.
