Keala Settle Quotes
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Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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Loosen up, and everybody around you will loosen up.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception.
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I always wanted to be on a sitcom.
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All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
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I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs.
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Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.
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My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.
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The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
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I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.
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I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.
