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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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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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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Don't be afraid of your dreams.
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It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.
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I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
