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I have extended a hand of friendship to Pakistan, our doors are open to everyone who wants to talk to me calmly, Manmohan Singh
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Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door. Robert Redford
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This opens the door on another chapter of history. Walter Cronkite
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There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide. Vincent Price
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Well I was born a rambler friends, and I intend to die that way. It could be twenty years from now it could be most any day. But if there ain't no whiskey and wimen lord behind those heavenly doors, I'm gonna take my chances down below and of that you can be sure. Townes Van Zandt
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If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe. Ursula Burns
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You cant be ridiculously disrespectful.
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Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door. Robert Hunter
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Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the most introverted drives and motives are set in a social context and amplified by the potential for achieving fame. Tyler Cowen
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The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting. Nancy Pelosi
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It’s not exactly that I can’t stay in one place. It’s that if I’m in one place, I have to rearrange it every four to six months! I have to completely change my room! Jackson Rathbone
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What happens in the band room stays in the band room. John Green
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The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn`t like. Jude Law
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One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room. P. G. Wodehouse
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Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome. Nate Silver
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During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer. Mark Hoppus
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Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.
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I always do look forward to the stand-alone events, Kenny Wallace
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There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.
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He was the first superstar of sports television because he did all of the big events. He's the last of the dinosaurs. No one will ever be the voice of so many major events at the same time ever again. Dick Enberg
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He'll go back and forth between the two events. Basically, we're just using this indoor season to get him ready for the spring. Jim Jones
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. Walter Benjamin
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.
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Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future. Walter Lord