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ANG LEE Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, st...
ELAINE CHAO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
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ERIC BETZIG Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
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EVAN MEDEIROS There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
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EILEEN MEADORS i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
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SUN TZU That's how Nigeria fell into civil war in the 1960s.
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IN THE MAKING The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were total...
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CLINT EASTWOOD A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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SEBASTIAN JUNGER Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There is no greater glory than to die for love.
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ROGER KIMBALL Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
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KAREN HACKEL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in M...
MARGOT KIDDER When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Perhaps it's time that the privileged and the wealthy be required by law to serve in the military, t...
CAMILLO MAC BICA A man who cannot decide whether or not to pull the trigger, wages war against only himself.
DAVE FRANCIS In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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NEIL GAIMAN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
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VICTOR SHAMAS There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
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MANDY HALE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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WILLIAM SILVERMAN Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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RICK RIORDAN America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpa...
SAM KEAN He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ...
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TERENCE T. GORSKI I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
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ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
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ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
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ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
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SAM BROWNBACK I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.
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SAM BROWNBACK I voted yes for ANWR, and I would support those in other places, environmentally sound.
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SAM BROWNBACK I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign ...
SAM BROWNBACK There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads a...
SAM BROWNBACK An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the visi...
SAM BROWNBACK America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our m...
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SAM BROWNBACK I strongly support an 'all-of-the-above' energy policy that includes additional development ...
SAM BROWNBACK I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government...
SAM BROWNBACK Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And th...
SAM BROWNBACK I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphana...
SAM BROWNBACK I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I...
SAM BROWNBACK an individual of unquestionable qualifications and a long judicial track record.
SAM BROWNBACK The right to keep and bear arms is a right that Kansans hold dear. The people of Kansas have repeate...
SAM BROWNBACK I do think the Obama agenda is the furthest left agenda we've seen since probably LBJ and the Gr...
SAM BROWNBACK You're going to get a filibuster either way,
SAM BROWNBACK You're going to get a filibuster either way. So let's fight over something we know what the fight is...
SAM BROWNBACK I think you can put up John Roberts' ideological twin and you'd get a filibuster at this point. Thei...
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SAM BROWNBACK we just don't know her background on judicial restraint and on the Constitution.
SAM BROWNBACK It's just one piece of the puzzle.
SAM BROWNBACK It's something we'll have to probe.
SAM BROWNBACK Let's create a legal system that can work.
SAM BROWNBACK This is the type of nominee I've been asking for,
SAM BROWNBACK To make a successful run, I have to move pretty aggressive early, ... I think a Hillary Clinton, a J...
SAM BROWNBACK I took some comfort in that.
SAM BROWNBACK We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in...
SAM BROWNBACK Human cloning is the deliberate creation of a human life for utilitarian purposes. That life is crea...
SAM BROWNBACK I would like a nominee with a proven track record on important issues. I look forward to having thes...
SAM BROWNBACK I think there's still a lot to learn about this nominee. The president has had the advantage of work...
SAM BROWNBACK I wondered if the numbers were starting to tick up?
SAM BROWNBACK We're trying to put forward the truth, to continue letting that information flow to the people of Ir...
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SAM BROWNBACK If this is true -- and there is plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that it is -- this is a scan...
SAM BROWNBACK It's almost a CSI-type of case. ... You're left piecing together bits of evidence to try to ascertai...
SAM BROWNBACK We need to know more fully these views, and these things just kind of keep dribbling out and we need...
SAM BROWNBACK None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly, ... The plain fact is this amendment has been ex...
SAM BROWNBACK That was seen as a mandate,
SAM BROWNBACK The frustration is a lack of knowledge.
SAM BROWNBACK I would argue that the left has had a litmus test all along that a nominee can't be pro-life. Roe is...
SAM BROWNBACK This is a serious matter,
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SAM BROWNBACK Most of us right now are in the process of ... due diligence, ... What do we know about this candida...
SAM BROWNBACK Them providing this type of information from the White House is almost a risk they assume when you n...
SAM BROWNBACK is not a rubber stamp.
SAM BROWNBACK should remain top and pressing issues if we hope to achieve a freer and more prosperous Middle East.
SAM BROWNBACK I want to ask her about it (the speeches) and her philosophy.
SAM BROWNBACK It's time to play hardball.
SAM BROWNBACK It's time to play hardball,
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SAM BROWNBACK You don't have an unlimited number of bullets, so you save your next shot and go for then,
SAM BROWNBACK We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad.
SAM BROWNBACK Federal waste is a grave disservice to hardworking taxpayers across our great nation, and yet our go...
SAM BROWNBACK My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
SAM BROWNBACK Too often, while well-intentioned, our poverty programs fail the poor. They fail them by keeping the...
SAM BROWNBACK I do a number of things working on human rights issues, prison recidivism rates, and then I also pus...
SAM BROWNBACK The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their ...
SAM BROWNBACK I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal...
SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde...
SAM HOUSTON Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
SAM KEEN We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly...
SAM KEEN It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he woul...
SAM LEVENSON You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what...
SAM RAYBURN The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
SAM RAYBURN I like power and I like to use it.
SAM RAYBURN Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.
SAM RAYBURN If you want to get along, go along.
SAM RAYBURN When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
SAM RAYBURN Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.
SAM RAYBURN Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts.
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SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.
SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ...
SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot.
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SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the...
SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit...
SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall...
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SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ...
SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an...
SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct...
SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the...
SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co...
SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love...
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SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T...
SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain...
SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi...
SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.
SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i...
SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a...
SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi...
SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.
SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o...
SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe...
SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey.
SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ...
SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which...
SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.
SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m...
SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th...
SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts...
SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,...
SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w...
SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized.
SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is...
SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu...
SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?
SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an...
SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ...
SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.
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SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c...
SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.
SAM LEVENSON