Shirley Hufstedler Quotes
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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Truth is the best defense.
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If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
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In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.
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Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
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I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?
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I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I believe that every writer evolves with every successive novel. I view myself as work-in-progress.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
