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The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. ↗

— John Conyers

#bush #calling #democratic #democratic party #dubai

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. ↗

— John Conyers

#done #exact #exact opposite #four #grants

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America. ↗

— John Conyers

#america #care #congress #health #health care

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#different #having #i #i can #image

And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards, our cultural values make their job next to impossible. It's so much easier for pundits and politicians to point out figures and blame the people who are in the trenches every day than it is to get in there with them, or even to find out what actually goes on in those trenches. It's so much easier for parents to blame teachers when their kids get in trouble than to do the heavy lifting required at home to keep kids on track. And it's so much easier for us as a nation to cross our fingers and hope that we'll "get lucky" with the innovative "solutions" being tested on America's schools today than it is for us to roll up our sleeves and invest our own time, talent, and money in the schools that are even now-- with or without us-- shaping our nation's future. ↗

— Tony Danza

#public-school #education

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites. ↗

— John Conyers

#comes #deaths #favorites #hostilities #play

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

If you start to disrespect the character you're playing, or play it too much for laughs, that can work for a sketch, it will sell some gags, but it's all technique. It's like watching a juggler - you can be impressed by it, but it's not going to touch you in any way. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#character #disrespect #gags #going #impressed

Actors say they do their own stunts for the integrity of the film but I did them because they looked like a lot of fun. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#did #film #fun #i #integrity

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#almost #am #america #appreciation #because