Chris Van Hollen Quotes
It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I like being unconventional.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.
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I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
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When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.
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It was stunning actually, because what you would hope for from our national leaders is some reflection, some understanding that the situation that we encountered in Iraq was not what we expected, that it was not what he said it would be.
