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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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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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The less important you are on the table of organization, the more you'll be missed if you don't show up for work.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of fun and we wanted to keep doing a live show. And as Scott said, we knew a lot of funny young people who needed a place to do stand-up. And we were in a place, where we were writing so much that we weren't around live comedy so much, so we kind of missed it.
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President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.
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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.
