Barbara Wood Quotes
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Bart Stupak -
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
Camille Claudel -
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
John Lancaster Spalding -
It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
Irving Howe -
Loved people are loving people.
Katharine Hepburn
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Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.
Margaret Chan -
President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'
Conan O'Brien -
They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.
Janet Napolitano -
Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.
Shailene Woodley -
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Thomas Hobbes -
By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
Vint Cerf
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.
Blaise Pascal -
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather -
The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.
Sarah Paulson -
To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness!
Jose Rizal -
I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.
Harry Dean Stanton -
If you want to be equal with me, you can get your own Rolls-Royce, your own house and your own million dollars.
Muhammad Ali
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I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.
Monica Ali -
The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
Ian Matthias Bavitz -
He says not to list the patients we save but the ones we don't kill.
Barbara Wood