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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Many women do not want to venture out into the 'opinion world' until they are certain of themselves, the facts, and that they are right. They are afraid of being shot down. The result is often silence.
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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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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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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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The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
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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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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
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Between Going and Staying
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
