Emily Watson Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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I felt so free in space, flying around and unrestrained by any social relationships, but my life since has changed a lot. Now I am extra-careful about what I say and do because everyone recognises me.
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You cannot classify a whole group of people based upon their religion and determine their intent. That's not fair. It's not American.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
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Every dog has its day, dogAnd today, dog, just ain't yours.
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Friends always say you don't realise how robust your baby is until you drop it.
