Debra Winger Quotes
You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian manufacturers still tend to use rennet.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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I've got that personality where I've always been determined. As a dancer, I was constantly improving and perfecting. I guess it's innate.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
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A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed.
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Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
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You see people on TV flying in to places just to pick up a baby, or brush some flies away. That's great if they can bring that issue to public attention. But that's not what I wanted to do. I was interested in committing to something that I could function in whether I was Debra Winger or not. Because nobody might care about that next week.
