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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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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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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Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.
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I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
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If you want to make something happen in your life or career, well then you make and find the time. Simple as that.
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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.
