The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.
Christopher Lasch
Recitation: by Male by Female
Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.
John Gourley
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Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
John Ortberg
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I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
Ana Castillo
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I reflect over my actions; I don't dwell on them.
Stellan Skarsgard
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We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley
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I would do a documentary about Jay-Z. Yes, I would.
Ron Howard
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'Mamma Mia' and 'Dallas' have proved to me that the things you dream about can happen. I don't ask myself, 'How did I get here?' but instead, 'I deserve to be here. I was right to think this would happen.' I'm a firm believer in the power we have in our minds to want something and pursue it in a sane and focused way.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
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Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.
Pete Burns
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It doesn't matter how beautifully a film is photographed. The acting tells your story. It's what people relate to. If you don't believe the characters, it doesn't work.
Seymour Cassel
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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
Thomas Sowell
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When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.
Krysten Ritter
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