Jeanne Shaheen Quotes
When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
Ursula Burns
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
Ted Rall
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
Victor Kiam
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
Oriana Fallaci
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
Maggie Hassan
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
Samuel Dash
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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The diverse sound of my music makes it a good fit for that demographic.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott Card
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Irving Thalberg
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
Vera Wang
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
Lapo Elkann
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
Tea Leoni
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
Patricia McCormick
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Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.
Leon Panetta
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There's a big debate in the U.S. about immigration reform. We need to reflect on who's feeding this country today, why this community has been ignored.
Diego Luna
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There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
Lauren Oliver
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
Bill Pullman
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We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.
Madeleine de Souvre
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When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.
Jeanne Shaheen