Geena Davis Quotes
We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
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Emily pounded on the door, assuming it would do no good, but finding the act of pounding very satisfying indeed.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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I do occasionally encounter a British business that delivers what and when, and for exactly the price, they promised. But commercial paragons in the U.K. are rare.
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There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.
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Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.
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We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
