Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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It's been my observation, after years in the [insurance] business, that a certain percent of the population simply can't resist the urge to cheat.
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I was a social worker most of my life while raising my two boys.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
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Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.
