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I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables me to play some leading roles and some stranger, more 'character'-type parts. I wouldn't say I'm the conventional handsome Hollywood leading man.
Tom Riley
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Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.
Marc Ostrofsky
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Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.
Mencius
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.


Abraham Lincoln
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
Eva Zeisel
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
Christian Louboutin
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Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.


Rob Gronkowski
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The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
Robert Kennedy
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Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long.


Oliver Goldsmith
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We believe every child is created equal with the right to life.


Sarah Palin
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It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.


Emily Blunt
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
Idris Elba
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The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.


Rob Thomas
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He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.


Siegfried Sassoon
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Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.
Ken Robinson
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
Bas Rutten
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You've got to be a really straight man to write a song like 'It's Raining Men.'


Paul Shaffer
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.


Immanuel Kant
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