Naomi Wallace Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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History develops, art stands still.
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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.
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To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.
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I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.'
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You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.
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My first meal when I wake up is five boiled eggs, egg whites, and a slice of whole wheat bread.
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Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.
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One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.
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Anytime you join a show that's been successful, there's a certain responsibility. And a lot of anxiety that, you know, you're bringing the character to life, respecting the show and doing your part. So that you are not the weak link in the chain.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
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If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
