Harold MacMillan Quotes
At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
