Callie Khouri Quotes
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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I never was a very good singer.
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There are complications in relationships between men and women. There always will be.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I hate sunshine so much. I can only cope with it when it's bitterly, bitterly cold.
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Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
