Clark Gable Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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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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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy.
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Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
