Cate Tiernan (Gabrielle Charbonnet) Quotes
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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Nothing is better than peace, by which all warfare of heavenly and earthly foes is brought to naught.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
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Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
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I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
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My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.
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I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
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At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
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Kids are afraid that if they race too fast they will get tired. Way too much fear and way too little COURAGE.
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Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.
