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In the age where the eight-cylinder Buick, the grey flannel suit and the tract home represented wholesomeness, ... Semina was the ultimate unwholesome object, and we gloried in it." ()
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In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.
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In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
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In places like Congo, children starve for their entire lives. We only have to do it for 30 hours, but it is still pretty hard. Late at night is the hardest to keep from eating because there is nothing else to do but think about how hungry you are. You get through it by thinking about those kids that have to go hungry all the time.
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In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
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In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World
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I ran into Anthony Hopkins at a recent event and asked him if he would consider co-hosting the festival. He seemed interested in the offer and said he would look at his schedule.
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Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.
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I ran because I thought I could bring a difference to the city of Hillsdale.
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I ran away to New Mexico. I painted in oils. I swam in mountain streams. I became part owner in a railroad and all sorts of bizarre things.
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If you took out energy stocks, results would be much different. They'd settle around 6.5 percent growth.
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If you thought you had three months to do due diligence a year ago, you now have three weeks.
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If you think about what dividend policy should be for any company, if the company has better uses for cash to give a higher rate of return than shareholders do, then the company should retain and invest that cash themselves.
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If you say that we're going to intervene to stop ethnic cleansing but we're only going to do it at 15,000 feet, you can't actually do it.