Mary Steenburgen Quotes
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
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You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
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If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
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'School of Rock' is fun. Hopefully, I've fleshed it out with a few catchy songs and kept the spirit of the original movie.
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If we want the whole world to be rich, we need to start loving wealth. In the difference between poverty and plenty, the problem is the pverty, not the difference. Wealth is good.
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Will Forte is such a nice, extraordinarily creative human being. Utterly fearless.
