Sarah Palin Quotes
Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.
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Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.
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The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?
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I love playing these characters that are crazy tough, though. Because I am not in real life. Not at all.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I came of age during the Golden Age of rom coms - like the '90s and 2000s - there were so many.
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I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.
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When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.
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Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.
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I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.
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Well, it's always, though, safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind of go along with the status quo. But I didn't get into government to do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built. Politics isn't just a game of competing interests and clashing parties. The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the common good.
