Kamisese Mara Quotes
'I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse.'
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I was an expert horseman.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet.
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I can't stress this enough: The single thing that will guarantee a happy, fulfilled, and calmer life is the quality of your human relationships, especially the people you love and who love you back.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.
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'I had been in touch with a lot of people I thought would stand by me in the front row of the scrum, (I) didn't know it was going to collapse.'
