Olympia Snowe Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
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I was not much good as a waitress.
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When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I've never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.
