Katherine Ursula Towle (Ursula Parrott) Quotes
Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
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You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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As a public company, Goldman Sachs will have the financial strength and strategic flexibility to continue to serve our clients effectively as well as to respond thoughtfully to the business and competitive environment over the long term.
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Coolidge is the best living demonstration that, if you keep silent long enough, something fortunate may happen to you.
