Mary Gordon Quotes
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
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Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.
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'Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow'.
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The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise-the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.
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Who knows why some satellites come by and by while others disappear into the sky.
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I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
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There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.
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Only a merciful Church shines! Were we to forget, even only for a moment, that mercy is ‘what pleases God most,’ all our efforts would be in vain, for we would become slaves of our institutions and our structures, however renewed they might be. We would always be slaves.
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I like SF environments that seem used, and lived in, every day; not just rolled off a props truck. Look around you! Everything is scuffed, scratched, dinged, faded, even rusty.
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Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life.
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
