In the wake of 9/11, we were desperate to bring those responsible for the brutal attacks to justice. But even that urgency did not justify torture. The United States must be held to a higher standard than our enemies, yet some of our actions did not clear that bar.
Dianne Feinstein
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
Jack Kirby
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I had eel at a sushi bar once; it's disgusting. I thought it was chicken. It looked like chicken. It was brown and looked delicious, and I was like, 'That looks safe.' It wasn't.
Chris Evans
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson
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The good thing about people underestimating models is that the bar is set so low, you tend to impress people more easily.
Cindy Crawford
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I work from about 8:30 A.M. until 7 P.M., five days a week, when I'm not sneaking off to buy another bar of chocolate.
Abi Morgan
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I prepared five songs, I sang them, and he hired me. I started working about a month later at the piano bar.
Bobby McFerrin
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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I wanted to live where I could pop to the bar that Humphrey Bogart took Lauren Bacall to, or the little restaurant where Charlie Chaplin had a booth.
Ashley Jensen
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The bar raises as you go.
William H. Macy
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I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.
Scott Ritter
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We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none - including President Lincoln.
Nigel Hamilton
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After workouts, I always try to eat protein right away, like a protein smoothie or an organic protein bar - you get them online.
Martha Hunt
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Our mother always raised the bar and believed in us. I am glad she made the sacrifices she did, and we honoured her sacrifices.
Kubra Sait
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The Bar Association can do so much in teaching people how to resolve conflicts without knives and guns and fists.
Janet Reno
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Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.
Gerald McRaney
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I met Harrison Ford at Barney's Beanery. And I met Steve Martin at the bar at the Troubador. He said he wanted to be a stand-up comic. I thought that was the worst idea because he was so square, so Orange County.
Eve Babitz
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Unless one is planning to go shopping - basically begging to be smothered by the ravening throngs of returners and bargain hunters; an embrace as constricting as that hugging machine designed by autistic author Temple Grandin - then Boxing Day feels like a bar after last call when the lights have been turned up.
David Rakoff
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I've seen some beyond-amazing performers do karaoke who should be on stage somewhere, and I've seen people who you rather didn't enter the bar. That's the beautiful thing about it; it's for everybody.
Craig Robinson
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Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.
Bryce Dessner
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I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.
Jill Scott
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I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
Bess Truman
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If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.
Jenny Eclair
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