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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It's very easy to make poor choices and have bad swings every now and then.
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Virtues are often conquered by vices, but their rout is most complete when it is inflicted by other virtues, more militant, more efficient, or more congenial.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
