Gemma Cairney Quotes
I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.
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I learned from my community how to shoot a gun, how to shoot it well. I learned how to make a damn good biscuit recipe. The trick, by the way, is frozen butter, not warm butter. But I didn't learn how to get ahead.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
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The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
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I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.
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Companies the size of PepsiCo is like running a little republic, there is no question about it. The only difference is that I don't have to worry about the media hounding me every day, on every word that I say. I have a board of directors that runs the country in the interest of the stake holders.
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I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
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I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.
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The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
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I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.
