Maxine Waters Quotes
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.
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Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.
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We never discuss race in this country until something bad happens.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.
