Dee Rees Quotes
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
Ed Gillespie -
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
D. H. Lawrence -
You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
Maggie Hassan -
Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
Waris Dirie -
Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
Ira Glass -
I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
Jackie Evancho
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
Magic Johnson -
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
Bear Grylls -
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
Yasmine Bleeth -
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
Edgar Wright -
People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
Daniel A. D'Aniello -
Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
Wendy Liebman -
I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
Rachel McAdams
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
Tammy Baldwin -
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx -
When I was a student looking at Leonardo DaVinci and all those guys - Italian, Dutch, or whatever - it's incredible how each piece of the painting fits to the main theme that they want to express.
Emir Kusturica -
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
David Sedaris -
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer -
Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.
Dee Rees