Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.
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You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
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I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.
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I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.
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The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.
