Kim Basinger Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Think and grow rich.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.
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If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
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Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
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I love working and writing new songs. But sometimes you need to wait, to have something in your mind, and then you can let yourself play music.
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I'm a huge fan of the '70s. I'm obsessed with the music of that time.
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I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
