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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Shaw
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley
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When people get married because they think it`s a long-time love affair, they`ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
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I wanted to take a different approach. I wanted this character to be very optimistic, always with a smile on his face, but I just wasn`t able to put it into the scenes. I don`t know why. (On his character Chan Wing Yan in Infernal Affairs)
Tony Wai
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Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There`s a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
Sigourney Weaver
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I don`t party, I don`t get drunk and I don`t have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.
Rani Mukherjee
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Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them... even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... That`s why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile-- and we s...
Goldie Hawn
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A festival of puerile self-importance, intense paranoia, fiddled expenses and brilliant creativity. On his time with British current-affairs TV-programme `World in Action`.
Paul Greengrass
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We`ve all had a love of our life and failed love affairs. I`m just the biggest romantic - it`s really sad. I tell people that, but nobody listens.
Jennifer Lopez
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I`ve got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don`t have to ask anybody.
Joanna Lumley
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and ...
Andrew Mohl
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Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.
Andrew Johnson
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Well, I think as far as China is concerned, it`s the economic dynamism of China, which has already made China more assertive in world affairs.
Samuel P. Huntington
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We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men.
William H. Macy
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We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man.
Amy Wroblewski
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We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.
Andreas Renschler
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We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground in a theater of war.
Allan Kline
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We are receptive to the idea but the recommendation of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is that President Gloria Arroyo and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo present the proposal during the general assembly and promote it to the 190 countries of the...
Andrzej Fiema
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Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.
Carroll O`Connor
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
Edward Bond
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Twenty can`t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty`s eternal love affairs.
Alderman Joe Charles
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Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world`s affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
Al Edwards
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This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.
Aja Watkins
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This is our biggest fund-raiser of the year; The absolute biggest, and we haven`t had one of these affairs for five or six years, so it is important to the organization that we have a successful banquet Friday night,
Ron Meyer
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This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
Al Nash
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I`ve seen very few players in my life who didn`t want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
Carl Hubbell
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