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"The service members don't ask much of us. They ask to be well trained. They ask to be well equipped and they ask to be well led. And if something should happen to them, they ask that we take care of their families."
"What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect."
"Tod laughed. He was always able to find the humour in even the creepiest situations. I'd thought that it was an undead thing, until I became a member of the undead. Then I realized it was a Tod-thing."
"Effectively, the EU is a very powerful bureaucracy, dominated now by the German elite, which is backed by the rest of the European Union members."
"When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader."
"Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations."
"Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone?"
"I really do not understand the members of my generation."
"The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members."
"I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks."
"I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family."
"What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties."
"America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million."
"Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile."
"Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people."
"I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society."
"As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy"
