Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
took Amanda’s hand. “Sisters,” she repeated. “I walked away from you years ago. I’ll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.
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I don't eat red meat.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I have been connected with the Niels Bohr Institute since the completion of my university studies, first as a research fellow and, from 1956, as a professor of physics at the University of Copenhagen. After the death of my father in 1962, I followed him as director of the Institute until 1970.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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The early Billy Joel stuff I fell in love with, like Glass Houses, is a real rock record.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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I think Los Angeles is often portrayed as kind of a petri dish, where bad decisions start and then spread to the rest of the world. I don't see it that way. I feel Los Angeles is a place of almost primal struggle and survival. It's not a city that embraces its inhabitants.
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(On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18
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When the board games came out of the cupboard when I was a kid, I had to beat my two brothers every time.
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Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.
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I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. … They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. … I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.
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This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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took Amanda’s hand. “Sisters,” she repeated. “I walked away from you years ago. I’ll be damned if I let you stand alone today.
