Bev Perdue Quotes
Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.
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If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
