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Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

About Begin Connect Different
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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

Away May People Quiet
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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

Ask Every Explain Intrigued
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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

Adored Family Fascination Me
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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

Background Because Moved Own
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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

Around Between Childhood Ethiopia
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

Bankruptcy Bringing Constitutional Economic
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Beneficial Economically Except Expenditures
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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.
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Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Legitimate Only Required Self-Defense
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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism.

Capitalism Condemned Had Should
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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

Element Esteem Free FreeSociety
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

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Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

20thCentury Came Century Eisenhower
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I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

About Anything Anytime Away
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A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.

Bank Capitalism Central CentralBank
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Having federal officials, whether judges, bureaucrats, or congressmen, impose a new definition of marriage on the people is an act of social engineering profoundly hostile to liberty.

Act Bureaucrats Definition Engineering
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Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

Create Deficit DeficitSpending Deficits
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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

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It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Arriving Been Difference Has Been
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Abstract Any Back Beginning
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

Always Been Boy Cousins
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.

Bound Emerge Figures Little
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.

Amount Center Depend Interest
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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Back Become Complacency Complacent
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I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

Drove Hard He His
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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Anyone Art Else Make
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Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.
Become Borders Face Knows
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Ages Allow Back Basic
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The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Art Construction Europe Possible
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

Country Creations Economically Generation
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National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Bad Defense Direction Everything
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.

Accept Accord Am Any
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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

Actor Black Diversity Done
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As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going?

Action Claims Countries Down
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I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

Always Attention Seeker Trouble
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Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

Better Better Way Bulgaria Chances
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When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Acts Any Appalling Both
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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

Around Capable Commitment Create
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France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

France Insist Institutions Need
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To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Actually Only Pretend Pretended
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Entered Language Scene Soon
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Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

Certain Could Institution Longer
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Argument Became Between Extra
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