Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.
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The pitch for the show, the real pitch, when Larry and I went to NBC in 1988, was we want to show how a comedian gets his material. The show about nothing was just a joke in an episode many years later, and Larry and I to this day are surprised that it caught on as a way that people describe the show, because to us it's the opposite of that.
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If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
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Music was always encouraged as a passion and a hobby, but I was never told, 'This should be your job. You write music and record for a living.' It doesn't happen for people.
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I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten possum - possum's no good.
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Instagram has a faster chance of reaching me than CNN, and if I really want to know what's going on, I refresh my Twitter feed.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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When we don't unite, we do a terrible job.
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I'm always pushing back against the last thing I did in some way, and some of that is restlessness and a sense of limited time.
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Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
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Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.
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The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.
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That’s who we were, wartorn meadows on the verge of new growth.
