Patricia Ireland Quotes
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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I want to be a major force.
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
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A hangboard is a little piece of wood with edges, holes, and slopes. There's different strategies for different things - hanging, varying grips, adding weight. If I do a hard finger workout, I'm definitely sore.
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Competition is a powerful and essential part of this nation's economy and vital to cutting government costs.
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If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.
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I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
