Norma Deloris Egstrom (Peggy Lee) Quotes
I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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No two wars are identical.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.
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Un artiste n'est un artiste que grâce à son sens exquis du beau, - sens qui lui procure des jouissances enivrantes, mais qui en même temps implique, enferme un sens également exquis de toute difformité et de toute disproportion.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.
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To me our bombing policy appears to be suicidal. Not because it does not do vast damage to our enemy, it does; but because, simultaneously, it does vast damage to our peace aim, unless that aim is mutual economic and social annihilation.
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I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
