Barbara Castle Quotes
And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I'm a character actor.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.
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If you don't like the question that's asked, answer some other question.
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They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.
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I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.
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Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.
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Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.
