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Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always

test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?
Johann Lamont

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.
Stella Young

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.
Italo Calvino

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
Adam McKay

I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.
Carol Windley

No painting is ever not an infinitely reproducible image any more.
Molly Crabapple

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
Loudon Wainwright III

I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.
Bill Cosby

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
Italo Calvino

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.
Peter Dinklage

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