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I have opposed the Communist cold war line ever since, both by public utterance and by private help to trade unionists breaking free from the Communist influence.

I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.

I think the Eritrean government is aware that any full-scale invasion of Ethiopia along the lines of 1998 could turn out to be suicidal... And we will not respond to any provocation short of all-out invasion. We are already engaged in a much more fruitful war - against poverty.

Improv plays such a huge role in finding great lines - you'll be surprised at what comes out of your mind inadvertently. A lot of times it's better than a script you've worked out ahead of time.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''

When I come out to do my stand-up set, I pretty much get bombarded with lines from movies. You try to play off it a little bit, but that's what people want to see.

As soon as you Botox your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

It's so hard to express yourself, because swimmers are pretty much paying attention to a black line for hours out of a day.

A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

I'd always wanted the show to be more reality based science fiction, something along the lines of The Day the Earth Stood Still, which I consider to be the classic science fiction film.

I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Right after Dynasty ended I had a facelift and laser surgery to get rid of lines around my eyes.

The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

At the end of the day, if you can't say a line right, it does not matter who your contacts are.

The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions

I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.

The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.

The car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

I would definitely line up for 'The Lord of the Rings.' I'm a huge 'Lord of the Rings' geek.

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

As far as my favorite sites, I do a lot of mundane stuff on line because I travel so much.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I consider I've had a good day when, among the lines I've written, I've produced from my innermost core what I call 'the appearance of the pearl.' That could refer to a discovery, a sense of harmonious cohesiveness, or something like that.

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?

When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.

I've got a clear line between work and real life.

The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

Just the other day, my assistant was on the line with Calvin Klein. Golly, I usually shop at Sears.

There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.

But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

It's really important to draw the line on what we do as actors.

I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

I used to take formal notes in lines of blue, and underline the key words in red, and I realised I needed only the key words and the idea. Then to bring in connections, I drew arrows and put in images and codes. It was a picture outside my head of what was inside my head - 'mind map' is the language my brain spoke.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I want to have my own line and collection.

It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

I hate learning lines, so the fight stuff's always my favorite.

In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical.