Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes
It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.
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Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
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Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.
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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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Most inventions are based on some prior history.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of stuff. I made the decision - you've got to be present to win, so I packed it up and moved out here, and it's been great. It's been the best decision I ever made.
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Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.
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This promise from the Lord to His Saints does not imply that we will be exempt from sufferings or trials but that we will be sustained through them and that we will know that it is the Lord who has sustained us.
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A lot of times it's tough to make the decision on your own. You know what you want to do and it always helps to have someone to rely on to help you out.
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Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
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It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.
