Gene Tierney Quotes
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
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Technology keeps progressing. Young people follow the curve. But as they get older, they get inertia, and they start deviating from that curve.
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I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
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Why should guns be treated different than toasters? If your defective product injures somebody, you're responsible for it.
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Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.
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I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
