Dolley Madison Quotes
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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At least they never do it while I'm in the house, because that would make me quite literally barf my lentils.
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You may imagine me the very shadow of my husband.
