Jerry Della Femina Quotes
The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
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Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.
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Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.
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I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to do.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.
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I have always been a reserved and conservative person.
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It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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I'm superconscious of not putting chemicals on my skin, like parabens and sulfates.
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Rules necessary for axioms. Not to demand in axioms any but things perfectly evident.
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The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
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For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
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I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
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The Democrats are going the way of Burma Shave and Crisco - products everyone loved and had in their homes. But they got old. They didn't have anything new to say about the product, and after awhile, they died.
