Allan Sloan Quotes

If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.

Allan Sloan

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So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

Jeremy Irons

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Some wonderful things have taken 10 years to make.

Robert Stigwood

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All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

Stellan Skarsgard

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When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

Stephanie Coontz

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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sidney Altman

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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rita Dove

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I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.

Rupert Graves

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I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.

Matt Bomer

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I think that a lot of people don't understand how much discrimination transgender people actually face. They think that we're just kind of saying it to put it out there and get sympathy, but that's not true at all.

Jazz Jennings

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My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

Dorothy Hamill

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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

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I attended a high school with more than 4,000 students and met with a guidance counselor only once during my four-year stint. Despite my clear strengths in science and math, my counselor's advice was to pursue a degree in business. A career in engineering was never encouraged nor, in fact, ever mentioned.

Peggy Johnson

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