Francis Maude Quotes
We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
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It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
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Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.
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These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
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I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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We all present versions of ourselves. The person you are at work is not the same person you are at home. The face we present in our most intimate relationships is not the face we present to the world.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
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Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact. I mean, when I write something in the press, the day after in the fish market, people will be discussing it.
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I could live anywhere in the world I want. But Los Angeles is the place to live.
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We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
