Hanoi Hannah Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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When you're babysitting a kid, all you're seeing is a version of them, a small dosage.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
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Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.
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In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.
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I would like to see America some day.
