Jenny Shipley Quotes
When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
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Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
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The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
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I'm sure there are managers who have had far greater financial success. But my companies such as easyJet have changed the lives of many people. We haven't just made flights affordable for a lot of people.
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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
