Charles de Montesquieu Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
Manuel Puig
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
Jack O'Connell
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
Dan Gilbert
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If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
Zachary Taylor
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
Zubin Mehta
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
Barry Bonds
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
Brown Campbell
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I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.
Vikram Seth
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Trust me: I've been travelling, making movies, and spending the remainder of my time at home.
Kajal Aggarwal
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
J. K. Simmons
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert
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My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
Ian Watson
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
Mahershala Ali
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I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.
Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.
Warren Spector
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I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
Randall Kennedy
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
Gary Lineker
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
Asa Gray
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Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.
Thomas Sowell
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
Wayne Dyer
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Haters are sometimes people who can't understand why everybody loves you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.
Wesley K. Wark
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To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.
Charles de Montesquieu