Jane Powell Quotes
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
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First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer.
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During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
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It's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
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The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.
