Wendell Willkie Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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You have to be yourself.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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There is no rule that says a footballer needs to be 'this high' and 'this wide.'
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Free men are the strongest men.
