Jane Austen Quotes
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.
