Debra Messing Quotes
Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
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Instead of reading a paper, we now read the news online. Instead of buying books at a store, we buy them on-line. What's so revolutionary? The Internet has mainly affected our leisure life.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.
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All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.
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Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
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Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
