Anne Cumming Quotes
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I am the kind of person who does not like to carry baggage. In fact, I don't go back and listen to my own music. I believe in closing chapters and moving forward. That's what gives me peace.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.
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I really love peace and quiet.
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We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.
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TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around, but now I don't. No more diets to stay slim and desirable: I've had sex and I've had food, and I'd rather eat.
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Nec tantum prodere vatiquantum scire licet.
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I see real opportunities for us to have stronger, closer collaboration between the three North American partners and seize on opportunities to achieve objectives of more jobs and growth.
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There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
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Sex is a short cut to everything.
