Kamla Persad-Bissessar Quotes
Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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I have one desire: That is to have a principle-based, member-driven Congress. Period. That's what I want.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.
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In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
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I realize that men and women of the military go out and sacrifice their lives and put their selves in harm's way for my freedom of speech and my freedoms in this country, and my freedom to take a seat or take a knee, so I have the utmost respect for them, and I think what I did was taken out of context and spun a different way.
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
