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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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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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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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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Self Confidence has always been the parent of great actions.
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
