Jon Kyl Quotes

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl

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KnowledgeBestWorldHelpNever

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Jennifer Westfeldt

I CanActorWayAlwaysRoleSure

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.

Melanie Griffith

GoodPeopleMeFeel GoodActing

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Andy Goldsworthy

StoneWatchMeltFrightening

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Michael Emerson

DreamsGreatBlessedDoingClassic

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

WorkTruthPowerResponsibilityHand

The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.

John Zimmer

LifeCommunityCulturePeopleBack

I hate playing pretty or sane people. Most people are not attractive or all there.

Amy Sedaris

HatePeoplePrettyPlayingSane

The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

Sufjan Stevens

ArchitectureWorldStartThinkYou

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Steven Pinker

TodayPeopleThoughtConnectionsGet

I think if you were to ask me when I was much younger what my definition of the good life was, I think it would have sounded a lot like what most people would say - a life with all the things you want and everything you think you need to make you happy, and these sorts of things.

Trip Lee

LifeGoodHappyPeopleMeThink

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

Tomas Borge

NatureHeartPeopleMeKnowHand

It is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not 'either/or' options - indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.

Martin Rees

PositiveWorkProblemsPolitical

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