Cherie Lunghi Quotes
I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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Music is like my security blanket.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
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The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Even when it comes to zippers and buttons, Italy reigns supreme. The luxury market is ours, as demonstrated by the voracity with which various foreign conglomerates are buying up the jewels of our manufacturing sector.
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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I did every sport under the sun while growing up.
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I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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I feel like a feminist is gender equality.
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Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.
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I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.
