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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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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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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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.
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In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.
