Sharon Kay Penman Quotes
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.
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I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Cheney refers to his vice presidency... as one of the most consequential vice presidencies in American history. And it clearly was.
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
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I use Shazam all the time.
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We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.
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My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.
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Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?'
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I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.
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I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
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Do you know what White House correspondents call actors who pose as reporters? Anchors.
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You can't give up. If you set yourself a target, you've got to keep on until you achieve it. It's a matter of having pride in yourself.
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The biggest thing I have realized was that you have to choose your collaborators very carefully, and that not everybody can like you. The process of filmmaking is so difficult, there's no point in doing it unless you can do it the way you want.
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Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district.
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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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For every wound, the ointment of time.
