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It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that glo... - Tarja Halonen

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

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Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

Alberto Salazar

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I think that I can act.

Badshah

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The music that I make is built on layers upon layers of musical ideas. I want to keep it fun and fresh to where listeners won't get everything from just one listen. They can go back to it months, weeks, or even years later and hear something that they didn't ever hear before. That's what it's all about.

Big Boi

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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Caprice Bourret

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My films do very well on home video.

Christopher McQuarrie

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When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album.

George Duke

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Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of time to put your stamp on a publication.

Jacob Weisberg

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Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.

Jessica Savitch

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I trained as a singer before I was an actor. I was a kid singer, I went to theater and choir school, and then I got music scholarships throughout my education. And that's what I was going to do. And then I took a left turn and went to drama school and became an actor.

Julian Ovenden

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I don't feel like my films are about gender; they are about identity - but a different slant on identity.

Lisa Cholodenko

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I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

Ruth Reichl

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I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

Tiya Sircar

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One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater

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I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

William Hague

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