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"If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions."
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"You can't argue with religious people, you can't change their mind even if you prove them wrong."
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"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
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"Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results."
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"The big debate right now is if Saddam is alive or dead. He's dead, then he's alive, then dead, then alive. It's just confusing. Today they showed videotape, and Saddam was speaking at his own funeral."
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"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
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"Open debate and full discourse on the topic of torture is a double-edged sword."
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"I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension."
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"When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it."
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"If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?"
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"I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues."
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"One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia."
Life
"I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can."
Love
"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."
History
"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
Thought
"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."
Thought
"I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily."
Movies
"You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed."
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"It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism."
People
"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
War
"There's an electrical thing about movies."
Movies
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