Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia) Quotes

A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

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• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Up
  • School
  • Done

• I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Today
  • Reading
  • Brown

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Speak

• My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Emotions
  • Filmmaking

• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • True
  • Know

• Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Political
  • Media

• At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Done
  • Kids

• It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Up
  • School
  • Couple

• I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Change
  • Artist
  • Politics

• If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Light
  • Sun

• I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • God
  • Giving

• Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.

  

  Ken Liu

• I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.

  

  Scott Stapp
  • Christian

• The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

  

  John Naisbitt
  • Future
  • Present

• I want to show up in a pimped-out Ford Bronco.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Up
  • Show
  • Ford Bronco

• If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Heart
  • Sick
  • Living

• I didn't really play dress up when I was a kid, and I'm really T-shirt and jeans-y.

  

  Elliot Page
  • Up

• It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

  

  Bjork
  • Funny
  • Hand

• A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.

  

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