Patricia A. Woertz Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Well, being that, at the house and being in the competition, it was very hard to be with family. We couldn't have visitors out of respect for everyone else there. But, being the American Idol, the focus would have been on me.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
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No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
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There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.
