Rebel Wilson Quotes

I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

Rebel Wilson

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• Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

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• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

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• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
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• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
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• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Success
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• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
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• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• For John Wilkes Booth, sweeping, grand gestures were a way of life. It was how he navigated his way through this world. The bigger and bolder, the better.

  

  Jesse Johnson
  • Life
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• The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Community

• I've always essentially been a New Yorker.

  

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• I remember very little about writing the first series of 'Hitchhiker's.' It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

  

  Douglas Adams
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• I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

  

  Jeffrey Donovan
  • People
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• Pigs eat grass if they are very hungry, but they can't use it as a regular source of food.

  

  Marvin Harris
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• Bullying has existed forever. Everyone has dealt with it, and teenagers, regardless of where they are, are dealing with the same stuff growing up.

  

  Katherine Langford
  • Up
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• Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates women.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Women
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• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  

  Tony Blair
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• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
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• We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Dog
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• Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

  

  Jane Harrison
  • Life
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• It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

  

  Thomas Sowell
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  • Cost
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• I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Dog
  • Steps
  • Showers