Portia Simpson-Miller Quotes
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.
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I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.
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Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love.
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I write for children because I am interested in fantasy and the possibilities for experience of all kinds before the time of compromise. I believe that children are far more perceptive and wise than American books give them credit for being.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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Instead of thinking about other people's thoughts and views of you, just think "I have to do well myself," and you'll be able to do well.
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I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.
