BarbaraNeely (Barbara Neely) Quotes
How could he ever be her friend and not understand this very basic part of who she was? Would he have a friend who chose to marry someone who hated people with Down’s syndrome? But, of course, white folks in this country are trained to believe they can have it both ways, like stealing the Indian’s land while claiming to admire the Noble Savage.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.
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We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really want to watch that. I'm really interested in it.'
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We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.
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I don't exercise.
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Militat omnis amans
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I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.
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I was a big fan of 'Star Trek.' But then again, you know, 'Star Trek', 'Star Wars', 'Doctor Who', I wasn't a big fan, but you know, when they ask you and they cast you and it drops in your lap, how can you say no to these franchises.
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In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces.
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What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.
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I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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There's nothing I really believe about 50 Cent.
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I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.
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In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
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How could he ever be her friend and not understand this very basic part of who she was? Would he have a friend who chose to marry someone who hated people with Down’s syndrome? But, of course, white folks in this country are trained to believe they can have it both ways, like stealing the Indian’s land while claiming to admire the Noble Savage.
