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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
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The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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I'm not one of these people who want to tear down our heroes and that kind of thing.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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Most music careers slowly but surely go down.
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.
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I want to touch people's hearts, to get right down to their souls.
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I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can... take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don't know.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.