Maeve Binchy Quotes
I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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You can do all of the world-building you want; at the end of the day, what's important is the heart and the drive of the story and the heart and the drive of the characters.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
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I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
