Pat Nixon Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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People take things so seriously.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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Elves are cool, man.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.
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Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.
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Everyone has their own definition of a healthy lifestyle, and mine has come to mean making health a priority but not an obsession.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
