Shirley Hufstedler Quotes

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

Shirley Hufstedler

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• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

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• I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.

  

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• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

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• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

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• Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

  

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• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

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• I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

  

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• I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.

  

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

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• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

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• A true community is not just about being geographically close to someone or part of the same social web network. It's about feeling connected and responsible for what happens. Humanity is our ultimate community, and everyone plays a crucial role.

  

  Yehuda Berg
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• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

  

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• That's all you can do as an actor - take the best thing available.

  

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• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

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• 'The media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'' 4

  

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• Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

  

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• As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.

  

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

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• To US Ambassador H. Monroe Browne, who owned a racehorse called Lacka Reason: 'You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.'

  

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• Love is the strongest force in the world.

  

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• Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.

  

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• I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.

  

  Shirley Hufstedler
  • World
  • Age
  • Humanity