Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ~Joichi Ito
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All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. ~Jack Steinberger
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The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern? ~John Shelton Reed
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I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~Bonnie Wright
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He knew he should have counted. It was the rule to count to ten in his head before he opened his mouth. It was the rule to count to ten if he wanted to smash a man in the face for saying something he didn't like. It was the rule to count to ten if instinct wasn't needed, but common sense was. ~Melina Marchetta
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. ~Ronald Reagan
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A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ~Sean Astin
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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Beggars can't be choosers. ~English Proverb
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It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. ~John Bulwer
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It is much more enjoyable being an actor. ~Kyle Chandler
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. ~Brian Austin Green
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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That's what acting is; it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. ~Kerry Washington
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It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter. It is worth remembering that the Jeffersonian "wall of separation" between church and state has always been intended to protect the church from the state as much as the state from the church. ~Jon Meacham
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment. ~Jim Jeffords
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Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom. ~French Proverb
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Do not trust the emir if his vizir cheat thee. ~Arabic Proverb
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Autumn is the hush before winter. ~French Proverb
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention; but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it. ~Stephen Merchant
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