Debra Winger Quotes
If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I think I've been a great citizen.
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Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I'm not running about playing romantic leads. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but it's the way it's sort of working out.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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The other seeming oddity of its role as a national symbol is that it has achieved this status for Indians in spite of it being Islamic.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.
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Sir Thomas was a sentimental man. He loved Soldiers. He had once thought all men who wore the red coat were rogues and thieves, the scourings of the gutters, and since he had joined the army he had discovered he was right, but he had also learned to love them. He loved their patience, their ferocity, their endurance, and their bravery.
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We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs - not corporate profits - front and center.
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I'm starting to cry. I'm remembering those years I struggled with my weight, those times when I saw my reflection in a store window and didn't know who that fat person was, years when it was a big accomplishment for me to exercise at two dots on the StairMaster. And now I'm finishing a 26-mile race. Damn! This is better than winning an Emmy!
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.
