Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes
If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.
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I love Neutrogena's Makeup Remover Cleansing Wipes. They get all my makeup off and are really moisturizing.
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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.
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If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.
