Robert Harris Quotes

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

Robert Harris

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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Jerry Saltz

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If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Angelina Jolie

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If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Amy Jackson

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If I'm looking at life without a spiritual perspective, it's a lot more painful, a lot more confusing, and there's so much that I don't understand.

Amanda de Cadenet

LifePerspectiveSpiritualLooking

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.

Steven Seagal

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Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.

Shreya Ghoshal

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I was with a Navy F-18 squadron, and I know a single squadron could finish off the entire Sudanese air force in a day.

Tom Catena

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Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Martina Navratilova

PeopleClothingLabelsFiling

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

Michel Foucault

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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

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I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Bobby Keys

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I think professionally I admire people and the way they've handled their careers and being in the media. But the people that I used to inspire me and keep me going were my peers in Toronto - I would see the same girls going to audition after audition, and their resilience to do it again, and I found that inspiring.

Anna Silk

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