J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
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After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
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There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
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No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
