Al Gore Quotes
We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
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To a lot of people that would be an insult.
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I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
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The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
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We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
