Everett Dirksen Quotes
We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
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I was playing the villain 'Falseface' on Batman, and I got wind that they were going to pay a young starlet $25,000 to be in the same episode. Well, I wasn't getting anywhere near that amount of money, so I refused to let them put my name in the credits.
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My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
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I'm not a big Woody Allen fan, but thought 'Husbands and Wives' was great.
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What you do with it and things like that, but I basically chose this after I read it because I thought it was different and funny and unique and dark - things that I like to do.
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We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
