Katharine Weymouth Quotes
Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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If you look at the Qur'an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
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With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
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Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
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Hillary Clinton famously talked about how raising a child takes a village. Except our society isn't set up that way. We're organized in nuclear units, and a single mom can ask her friends only so many times for help picking up the kids.
