Debbie Reynolds Quotes
I’m not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I … I don’t even know what they mean… But she’s so amusing to me and it’s wonderful to be around her.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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She's a slob, she talks like a truck driver.
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For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover.
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A pinch of notoriety will do.
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Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.
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I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well.
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I’m not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I … I don’t even know what they mean… But she’s so amusing to me and it’s wonderful to be around her.
