Billy Tauzin Quotes

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

Billy Tauzin

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• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

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• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
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• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

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• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

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• It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.

  

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• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.

  

  Ovid
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• I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
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• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
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• I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.

  

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• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.

  

  Kate Millett
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• In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
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• We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Want
  • City
  • Feet

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
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  • Kid

• There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
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• I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Mother
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• Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Time
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• I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

  

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• I would love to go back to any time in European history, especially in Irish history, to the second or third century, prior to the arrival of Christianity when Paganism flourished. I can always go back there in my imagination, of course. It doesn't cost anything, and it's a form of time travel, I suppose.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Time
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• If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

  

  Chantal Kreviazuk
  • Life
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• Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

  

  David Boudia
  • Heart
  • Competition
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• The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

  

  Billy Tauzin
  • Water
  • Opinion
  • Humble