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After all, game shows are not like working in a coal mine.


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In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant.
Donna Brazile
Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.
Peter Garrett
As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.
Jonas Gahr Store
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Well, I'll tell you, one of things I'm proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn't grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
Hilda Solis
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I would like to call India a gold-mine of art. It's really the richest in the world.


Mary McFadden
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Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
Nick Nolte
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
Iggy Azalea
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There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.
Jack Layton
I have a friend of mine who does me on his answering machine, and when I call him, I answer. It's pretty strange.
Christopher Walken
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When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'
Matthew Reilly
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
Harrison Ford
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Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.


Tim Cahill
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We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
Lois Capps
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Coal is cheap, but up to what extent are we going to allow coal plants to operate?


Jejomar Binay
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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.
Nick Flynn
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To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.
Jeff Lemire
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The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.


Ayn Rand
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.


Bob Hope
I don't very much distinguish when I'm working. I do what I like to do: the time changes and my activity changes.
Roustam Tariko
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