Delia Smith Quotes
I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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I want to write songs and play them for people - live.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'
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It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
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My career has been a bit strange. I don't think it took the normal route.
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True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.
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I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love.
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It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
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I found in my whole career the best thing that can happen to you is that you hear what people want.
