Wendell Willkie Quotes
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
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I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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Music stops you from thinking.
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The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.
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The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
