Florence Henderson Quotes
I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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I have always loathed working out.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Urban renewal always happens as a symphony of events, and part of the symphony is innovative, optimistic developers with the ability and willingness to transform historic properties.
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I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
