Jessica Williams Quotes
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. (23 February 1940)
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Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
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The message coming out of this government session, beyond the prayers and hope, is that the government functions. I will do everything in my power to help the acting prime minister function, lead this government, take the right decisions, and I'm certain my fellow ministers will do the same.
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I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.
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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.
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I started 'The Daily Show' when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.
