Geraldine Laybourne Quotes
I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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I don't have time to be depressed.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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It's important to keep your power and not give it up.
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When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.
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While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.
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Apparently she's the only one who is happy with this bill.
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It isn't courageous to go forth when you don't know the dangers. But it's very courageous to go forth when you do.
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Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!
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Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
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I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.
