Vicki Lawrence Quotes
I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.
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I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
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Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.
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I went to Vietnam during the Vietnam War to visit all the troops. We would fly into a hospital and serve mess to the guys, and we ate whatever they were eating. Then we slept there and flew out the next day to little bases where there were maybe 10 or 20 guys. Then we flew to another hospital.
