Ann Widdecombe Quotes
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.
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People who worry about their hair all the time, frankly, are boring.
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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
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What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!
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Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.
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Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.
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I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.
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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
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On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
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It has always been our deep conviction, and we have always stressed the fact that the only solution for Afghanistan is democracy through elections. Each individual must have the right to vote. The day we will be in Kabul, we will organize elections under the auspices of international organizations.
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Ric Flair was so big I heard about him. I've read his autobiography and all that. He's huge.
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We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
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In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
