Bert Lance Quotes
All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.
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The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
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And I hope that everybody who loves this city will put aside party differences to try in the making of Greater London greater still. Let's get cracking tomorrow and let's have a drink tonight.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.
