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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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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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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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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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 demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.
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When I write, I don't think about messages for my readers.
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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
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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.
