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My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#briefings #corps #daily #day-to-day #house

It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext. ↗

— Leslie What

#hermit #literature #simile #wilderness #funny

More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#concrete #disarmament #done #more #must

From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#chinese #fourth #investment #korea #perspective

Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#basis #democracy #ideals #moral #once

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#destiny #determine #forced #go #history

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#cardio #decided #doing #film #found

I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America. ↗

— Parminder Nagra

#germany #go #got #i #madrid