Dan Rooney Quotes
I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.
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I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
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I have to have coffee in the morning.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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Freedom.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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Losing your parent is unlike anything.
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I'm a great planner, so before I ever write chapter 1, I work out what happens in every chapter and who the characters are. I usually spend a year on the outline.
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The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.
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Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
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If he's convicted, ... once all the appeals have been exhausted, the rules do allow for him to be executed within 30 days of that.
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I said from the very beginning that I was looking for the best person, I had no doubt it was Roger Goodell.
