Pearl Bailey Quotes
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
Karl Liebknecht
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
Tammy Duckworth
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring.
Jim Bunning
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The purpose of the United States, in stating these proposals, is simple. ... They aspire to this: the lifting, from the backs and from the hearts of men, of their burden of arms and of fears, so that they may find before them a golden age of freedom and of peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.
Scott Frank
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
Gabrielle Giffords
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
