Barbara Cook Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
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It's time for some common sense from federal agencies.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
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I never thought of myself as a comedian. That is a label – make me laugh. I want to make you think.
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We never thought we'd get this far, but we're here.
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A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
