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On disengaging from a character after filming: "There`s a terrible sadness. The last day of shooting is surreal. Your mind, your body, your spirit are not in any way prepared to accept that this experience is coming to an end. In the months that follow the finish of a film, you feel profound emptiness. You`ve devoted so much of your time to unleashing, in an unconscious way, some sort of spiritual turmoil, and even if it`s uncomfortable, no part of you wishes to leave that character behind. The sense of bereavement is such that it can take years before you can put it to rest.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

The reason I became a Republican is because (Dwight D. Eisenhower) was running. A hero from World War II, a charismatic individual, a military man, a non-attorney - even then I liked that! I was a very young person voting for the first time. A lot of people joke that a conservative is a liberal who`s made his first $100,000 and then decides,"Wait a second, I want to save this, why are they taxing it away?". Today the country`s in kind of a turmoil over taxing. Being raised in the thirties, watching my parents work hard to make ends meet, with jobs scarce, and then the war years - it tends to make a person a little more fiscally conscious than if you`ve been born into a wealthier family. You know, if you go to most people who are self-made and ask them what their political philosophy is, usually they`re a little more conservative than people who had a better start.

- Clint Eastwood

I`ve always been overly concerned about what people think which has resulted in a lot of inner turmoil. I try not to give a damn but inside I`m a huge ball of worry.

- David Duchovny

I don`t feel any pressure from fans. But I`m always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That`s not to say that I`m not happy.

- Paul Simon

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

- Skeet Ulrich

The `70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

- Carlton Fisk

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch.

- Andrea Mitchell

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

- Ron Paul
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The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

- Ron Paul
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Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges.

- Bob Paris

Architecture can`t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn`t real.

- Alex Costakis

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

- Alexander Liberman

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

- Allan Reid

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

- Amaury de Barros Conti

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

- Andrei Gaidamaka

Turmoil stimulates.

- Andrew Coburn

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

- Andrew DiPasquale

We condemn all those who are trying to create a turmoil in Lebanon, our brother Lebanon. We hope that the Lebanese people will remain united and strong in these critical moments, denouncing any internal strife and rejecting any foreign intervention.

- Angela Walter

Continued self-exclusion from the euro will bring a crushing loss of investment and political influence and increased vulnerability to money market turmoil,

- Arben Xhaferi

We still see more value in the Asia-Pacific region than in the U.S. market, where people are still panicking over inflation. On a 15- to 20-year basis for a country like Japan, which has had years of market turmoil, there is certainly still room to run.

- Barbara Buckley

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they`re almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...

- Robert Heinlein