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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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 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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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 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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I will not be collateral damage in a presidential campaign, nor will I be a woman bullied by Hillary Clinton.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you're in, this law is a good thing.
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If you get a colonoscopy, you should really insist they give you no drugs - then you do get to see what it's like to swim through your own intestines.
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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.
