Eve Arden Quotes
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
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So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
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Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
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If you're against same sex marriage but you laugh your ass off to Will & Grace, FUCK YOU holds up middle finger. You are a hypocrite pointing, and you're not allowed to pick and choose what you like from our culture, and leave behind the burden of inequality.
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'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'
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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
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I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
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I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.
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I've never cared for the character I generally played in films.
