Carol Moseley Braun Quotes
We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
Jacki Weaver
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
Abhishek Bachchan
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
Iggy Azalea
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
G-Eazy
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Paracelsus
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
Laura Benanti
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
Gary Johnson
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
Natalie Portman
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
Camille Paglia
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
Natalie Dormer
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
Jack Kemp
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I believe that loyalty is a cardinal virtue. Nowhere in the world is loyalty so little revered and tittle-tattle so greatly venerated as in Washington.
James Carville
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
Seth Godin
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By and large, the answer to the question 'How do large institutions survive?' is 'They don't!' The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.
Carol Moseley Braun