Joan Plowright Quotes
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Small businesses all across this nation are tired of the uncertainty created by Washington.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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I'm a real animal lover. I adore animals of all shapes and sizes.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
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I think pineapple is very sexy. It reminds me of bikinis and the beach.
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There is something sexy about a computer nerd.
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Nothing is so sexy in a man as talent.
