Penny Jordan Quotes
It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I'm not financially insecure anymore either so I don't have to sit there and get on the latest Poison tour just to make money, which is what a lot of them are doing.
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The reason there's not a dictatorship in Chile and that there's a democracy in South Africa and Portugal today - and that Haiti has a nascent democracy - is that the world community as a whole felt outraged. This is the reason Milosevic sits in a jail in The Hague. It's because the world has said, 'Enough.'
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It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
