Clara Schumann 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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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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I always wanted to be more validated as a human being, as a person, than I was as a player. I think that was a really hard balance for me.
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
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I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.
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I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
