Jenny Shipley Quotes
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I love books.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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I disagree that an athlete can't be intelligent. Some people think that, in basketball, we have a bunch of masculine adults who don't know how to control themselves. They're feeble-minded and can't engage or articulate ideas. That's a narrative they keep trying to paint.
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In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
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People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
