Phyllis Theroux Quotes
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some validation from him that her pain is real, that he's sorry and will make amends. The child will wait forever, unable to move forward, unable to forgive, without someone to acknowledge the past. In that powerlessness comes a terrible rage.
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It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.
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It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.
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Sometimes we emulate the Pharisees more than we imitate Christ.
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We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
