Debra Winger Quotes
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
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We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
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Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
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Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.
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It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.
