Maxine Waters Quotes
This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
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I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he's still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he's still got that fire about music.
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My whole family is quite petite, so I have good genes on my side. But I find it quite tiresome that we have to keep talking about sizes and how much weight we can lose.
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It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
