Carl Schurz Quotes
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone to call me in a month or something, and say, 'Can you do these for my son's Bar Mitzvah?'
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I had been, like, 'I don't wanna be a singer anymore', so dramatic, but when I was recording with Brian Higgins I was like, oh my god I love this, I love these songs, I love what this is. And then we just kept on working and working until we got more songs.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
