Wendell Willkie Quotes
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
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John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.
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I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two.
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I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.
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The one thing that I have been struck with, after coming here to Congress is, how many people in Washington, D.C. talk about job loss like they are talking about the weather, or a natural disaster like an earthquake.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
