Francis Maude Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.
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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.
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You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.
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Ah! what is human life?How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade,Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd!The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth;Too subtle is the movement to be seen;Yet soon the hour is up-and we are gone.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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In this period of the building of socialism we can see the new man and woman being born. The image is not yet completely finished - it never will be, since the process goes forward hand in hand with the development of new economic forms.
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The party at its best has always been a modern party.
