Arlene Francis Quotes
It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.
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I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
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If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.
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You cannot make a difference unless you're different.
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And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.
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It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.
