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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Ralph Nader

Trust, Money, Government

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Love, Die, Desire

Whatever it takes to make an individual feel better, I'm all for it.
Janice Dickinson

Whatever, Individual

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Bruce Barton

Life, Real, Person

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Time, Writing, Words

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable.
Emma Thompson

Time, Home, Yourself

It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
Jean Baudrillard

Him, Others, Stop

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy

Doubt, Night, Big

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
Bell Hooks

Love, Time, Knowing

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick

Happiness, Great, Happy

Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.
John Cusack

Business, Death, Through

It takes two hands to clap! I cannot be solely blamed for what happened in my relationships! If things soured, it happened because of both parties. Not just me!
Akshay Kumar

Two, Cannot, Both

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

Anger, Children, Show

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Place, Speak, Often

It takes no imagination to live within your means.
Francis Ford Coppola

Live, Means, Within

The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.
Joe Biden

Give, American, Public

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Around, Rest

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
Doris Lessing

Book, Year, Months

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.
Wilma Rudolph

Life, Sometimes, Happened

98% of the people in the world are harmless and wish you well, but it only takes one person who doesn't. That's what you're constantly on guard against.
David Duchovny

Person, Wish, Against

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
David Duchovny

Single, Down, Understand

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.
Sting

Smile, Ignorance, Suffer

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

Children, Others, Child

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
Elizabeth Edwards

Sense, Cancer, Shoulders

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
Elizabeth Edwards

Love, Bad, Father

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.
Pierre Corneille

Good, Lie, Keep

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
Aaliyah

Life, Laugh, Words

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
Natalie Portman

Marriage, Yourself, Gay

I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
J. Michael Straczynski

Religion, Science, Why

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

Political, Else, Election

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