David Trimble Quotes
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes careTo grant, before we can conclude the prayer:Preventing angels met it half the way,And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
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Something's going to happen that's going to make us all pay attention at the type of sentences some people are serving and the conditions in which they are served.
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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
