Pat Nixon Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm an emotional person.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or 1960. I played Wilde in one, and Robert Morley was in the other. As it turned out, at that particular moment there was no market for any Oscar Wilde movie at all.
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Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
