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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I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
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We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.
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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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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.
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The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.
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I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
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I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.
