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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
Tom Stoppard

Time, Good, Long

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
Paul Ryan

Attitude, Country, Debt

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.
Donald Rumsfeld

Money, Focus, Goal

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Good, Attitude, Blessings

The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
Brooke Shields

Life, Proud, Personal

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.
Brian Eno

Best, Play, State

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
P. G. Wodehouse

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.
Chuck Klosterman

Good, Liars, Bad

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
Ravi Shankar

Sad, Fight, Book

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
Martin Scorsese

American, Side, East

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.
Billy Corgan

Play, Rules, Version

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
Cat Stevens

Death, Law, Writer

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
David Hockney

Makes, Hear, Deafness

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Jon Stewart

Strong, Enemy, Tell

It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
Brian Eno

Democracy, Easy, Disappear

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian Eno

Religion, Chance, Atheist

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
Morihei Ueshiba

Force, Attack, Draw

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Blood, Either

Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.
Rick Warren

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.
Tom Felton

Fun, Enemy, Bad

I actually eat a lot.
Heidi Klum

The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
Mark Zuckerberg

Time, Computers, Real

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
Henry Winkler

Motorcycle, Ride

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
Alanis Morissette

Music, Daily, Put

To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis Morissette

Someone, Enjoy, Living

When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
Alanis Morissette

Fear, Anger, Angry

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
Albert Bandura

Life, Trying, Problems

I've raised my girls in a sort of genderless fashion. I mean, I'll take them to get their nails done - I actually love doing that - but I also play ball with them. As a result, my girls are tough and athletic and game for everything.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Love, Game, Mean

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer

Age, Happiness, Happy

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia

Life, Human, Reality

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