Delarivier Manley Quotes
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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I operate from a place of delusion-that’s what the Fame is all about... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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Study the field that you want to get into and know everything about it.
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There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.
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Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation.
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Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
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As individuals are best off believing they control their behaviour, the judiciary is best off imputing that control - barring powerful extenuating factors such as mental illness.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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When you're in a choir, it's about blending into how everyone else sounds.
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My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.
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Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.
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Courage and clemency are equal virtues.
