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I choose eating, not smoking

If you don’t have it, you can’t spend it

– New York Cabby Mohammed Kalair talks about the rising cost of gasoline and his new spending choices because of it.

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I felt connected with her

You felt like you wanted to have a conversation with her

She is definitely deeply involved

Her assessment and evaluation and recommendations are going to be considered highly

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“Coal makes us sick”

“Oil makes us sick”

“It’s global warming”

“It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world”

“We’ve got to stop using fossil fuels”

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He hasn’t been there and ordered the bombs to fall

Anybody would be better than the Republicans

I was wrong with regard to the Patriot Act in trusting the administration with its assurances that the act would not be used and abused

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What a bizarre and dumb idea

It really feeds the arrogance narrative

The Audacity of Hype

No word on whether they played a remix of ‘Hail to the Chief’ as Obama walked in

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Even if the actors strike doesn’t happen, there is already an economic impact going on which is currently affecting production schedules

Even a smaller strike would slow down the recovery

We’re frustrated and discouraged that the talks have stalled because SAG’s Hollywood leadership is focused on its campaign to interfere with the affair of a fellow union

The producers remain committed to avoiding another harmful, unnecessary strike and to reaching another fair and forward-looking labour agreement

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The story is Flags of Our Fathers, the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that

If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate

A guy like him should shut his face

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I would encourage athletes not to distract themselves by burying themselves in the nuance and facts and figures and legislation of China, but simply to acknowledge that being an ambassador for human rights in China is the most Olympian thing to do. Anything less than that is not being a true Olympian, no matter the colour of the medal that you hold up

I’ve read the Olympic charter and when you read it, it is quite clear that it expects from athletes something more than being hugely talented beasts of burden

It expects that sport be more than entertainment of the masses. It demands that they are intended to be a tool for wholesale change in the lives of individuals and groups

If you have the power to make the world better then that’s something you should do, particularly when it is directly in line with your charter. To ignore those ideals so as not to embarrass a host compromises the movement

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The short answer is the intent is there.

Its probability, particularly in the short term, is lower than conventional weapons

In the immediate or near term, the focus is on conventional weapons, which can still be quite damaging. Something on the scale of 9/11 or the attacks on your transportation system. We have to look at the whole spectrum

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God put me on this earth to raise hell

Booze is the most outrageous of drugs which is why I chose it

Life is made from memories which is a pity as I don’t remember much

I do not live in the world of sobriety

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