Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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The acceleration of the number of traders buying into the market in the inflating bubble captures the oft-quoted observation that bubbles are times when the 'greater fool theory' applies.
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Moviegoers like to believe that those they have made stars are great actors. People used to say that Gary Cooper was a fine actor - probably because when they looked in his face they were ready to give him their power of attorney.
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So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now changed their system to state-socialism. Small elites run them, and they aren't sharing societies. They aren't even socialist. The power of the state has been merged with business property and you have the greatest concentration of power that's possible.
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Make sure you cut the grass low so the snakes show
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Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."
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If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
