Naomi Wallace Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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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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Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.
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I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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That's the nice thing about being a live act. I can get the audience, but it's for the moment. It's like, 'Can I do it tonight?' And you can see when people like you. But on record - and with the pen - it's almost for all time. Really, a lot more thought has to go into it.
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If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
