Ajit Pai Quotes
I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.
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We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
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I'll never forget the first time I heard Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Partita in E Major' for violin. It was in a late-1980s television commercial, of all things. As a young violinist at the time, it enchanted me - it was so pure, precise, and unadorned.
