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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'That would require an unprecedented leap of faith.''I don’t do faith,' Scorpio said.
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Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.
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Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less.
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My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.
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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.
