Daniel Webster Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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A lot of money eliminates a category of worry. If your car breaks down, you're still going to get through the day. But it doesn't make you a happy person if you weren't a happy person before.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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I started my career buying and owning single-family houses, and I know that's a really tough job. Toilets break. Trees fall. There are so many things that can go wrong. Land, on the other hand, is cheap to manage. It's painless, really. All you have to do is pay your taxes, and that's it.
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There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
