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 think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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You create a work of art. You do not know whether it will get public sanction. Sometimes outstanding films do no business, and sometimes films which are not so good work.
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'Facts of Life' was and continues to be a milestone on my journey. But when people act like the journey ended when 'Facts of Life' ended, that's annoying. I could never and would never want to divorce myself from it because it was such a great experience from so many different facets.
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I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them.
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I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?
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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.
