Daniel Gillies Quotes

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

Daniel Gillies

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My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.

Amanda Hocking

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I've played a lot of wide-eyed kids.

Tom Holland

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One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates.

Rob Lowe

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I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

Rosemary Mahoney

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I studied about the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War and about how the Constitution was written by men, many of whom were slave owners. So I suppose the travel ban strikes me as coming from an era I thought we'd left behind, but I guess we haven't entirely left it behind.

Mohsin Hamid

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Letting people into WTO who intend to cheat is obviously a mistake.

Mitt Romney

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I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

Lou Barlow

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I've been able to bring billions of dollars back to our state that has so desperately needed it - billions of dollars in relief to homeowners and our communities and our pension systems that desperately need it.

Lisa Madigan

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Certain classes of weapons that are strictly military and have no useful purpose in sport, hunting, or self-defense should not be legally sold.

Dick Durbin

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I don't do anything without measuring 10 times and cutting once.

Chris Bosh

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I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggler Francis Brunn, who was the first man to throw ten rings in the air; he was really an amazing juggler who showed onstage the quest for perfection.

Philippe Petit

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What is life about? Two things: love and death.

Svetlana Alexievich

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