Bret Stephens Quotes
I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
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If the Kirk confines human nature too strictly, it will break out in secret ways, for men and women are born into a terrestrial world, though they have hopes of Heaven.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Well, to the law, you’re an accessory. Before the fact.
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I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.
