I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
Joaquin Phoenix
Recitation: by Male by Female
I never believed that surrendering the executive power should be a condition of getting the second term. The second term should stand on its own feet.
Jim Gilmore
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In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
Joel Courtney
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The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.
John Ensign
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When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.
John Woo
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
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When I was younger, I would eat everything.
Summer Sanders
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Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
Jared Diamond
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I don't mind that Bill Gates is a mega zillionaire; he's done a lot of really interesting and innovative stuff. I do mind that a lot of unworthy people rode his coattails to minizillionaire status, e.g. the inventor of Hungarian notation, probably the dumbest widely-promulgated idea in the history of the field.
Jon Evans
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I cannot live alone.
Dick Van Dyke
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I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.
Douglas Wood
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I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.
Claire Foy
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When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.
Brian Chesky
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