"When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well."
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"Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar."
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"Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause.""
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"We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
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"Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them."
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"There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."
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"My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans."
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"So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance."
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"My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah."
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"Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely."
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"they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is"
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"I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it."
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"Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually."
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"My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it."
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"Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor."
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"It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done."
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"You trouble me so, Rand al'Thor. Light, sometimes I think the Creator made you just to trouble me."
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"The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor"
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"Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed."
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"For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him."
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