Virginia Foxx Quotes
Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.
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Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
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I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
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There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.
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One aspect of modern life which has gone far to stifle men is the rapid growth of tremendous corporations. Enormous spiritual sacrifices are made in the transformation of shopkeepers into employees... The disappearance of free enterprise has led to a submergence of the individual in the impersonal corporation in much the same manner as he has been submerged in the state in other lands.
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Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.
