William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw Quotes
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represented the part of me that wanted to make mainstream America laugh.
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I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.
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Let's just start with the word 'diva.' It is obviously a sexist slight - a term that is only applied to women, almost always in a derogatory way. It's usually applied to women who are viewed as overly ambitious. It is applied to demanding women, to women who follow their own path.
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The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.
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My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...
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You tell it that it's indicative by appending $!. That's why we made $! such a short variable name, after all.
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Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
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I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.
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All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Lawless schools produce lawless children.
