Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I will run against anybody.
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So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so that everyone has the ability to get one.
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They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.
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African audiences cannot accept our passive consumer role in the presence of film. (p. 44)
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Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
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An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment does not rest on facts - cold, hard, solid facts, established either by admissions or by trials - it serves no lawful or moral purpose and is simply an engine of oppression.
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
