Wendell Willkie Quotes
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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Death is better than slavery.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
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When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world?
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
