Olympia Snowe Quotes

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• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Door

• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Friend

• I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Say
  • Mystery
  • Short

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Say
  • Numbers
  • Many

• It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • American
  • Funny
  • English

• Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?

  

  F. E. Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Place

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Important
  • Question
  • Luck

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  

  Ice T
  • Country
  • Los Angeles
  • United

• Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Potential

• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Laundry

• One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

  

  Chellie Pingree

• I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

  

  Eric Avery Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Great

• Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Good
  • Great
  • History

• 'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • War
  • Lost
  • Vietnam War

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• We are here today because we want to be responsible stewards of the surplus,

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Responsible
  • Surplus