E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Quotes
I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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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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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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I resist the urge to pump my fist. I'm not sure why, but I feel like I've just won some sort of competition worthy of headlines.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse - I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.
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I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.
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I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.
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I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
