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Too many politicians are shifting the critical themes of our national conversations from a 'big ideas' American Brand Platform to narrowly focused, polarizing sound bites that put party philosophy before what used to be heralded as the common good. These ideas, more often than not, divide us rather than serve to bind us.
Alan Siegel
Tags: Good More Our
'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
Laura Slade Wiggins
Tags: Time Me Because
I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
Samuel Larsen
Tags: People Me About
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I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.


David Byrne
Tags: Am I Am Therefore
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Thomas Lynch
England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way.
Lawrence Schiller
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I am a focused person. I am a fighter.


Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
Tags: Am I Am Person
When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
Yul Brynner
Tags: You Like Because
It should not be expected that what is spiritual can be brought before the eyes, before the senses. It must be experienced inwardly and spiritually.
Rudolf Steiner
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan
Tags: Good About Just
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Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.


Saina Nehwal
Tags: Only Am I Am
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
Chinua Achebe
It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Gary Kemp
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
Aretha Franklin
Tags: Good Me About
I am an immigrant from Mexico. I came to the United States looking for a landscape where I could explore ideas freely and to test my entrepreneurial spirit.
Ilan Stavans
Tags: Am Where I Am
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.
Paulo Freire
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff
Tags: Me Think Who
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
Ernest Gaines
Tags: Think Who Out
I'm a girl, so I've experienced dismissal because I was a girl or because I write about girls: my book with a guy protagonist is treated as more literary and worthy than my other books with girl protagonists.
Sarah Rees Brennan