Jenny Shipley Quotes
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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I've never been a partier.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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I'm as honest as I can be.
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It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
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I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.
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I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
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No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
