Lauren Bacall Quotes
I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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Getting some distance allowed me to develop a hunger for India and to come back and explore it in a way I wouldn't have had I been living here. And that probably made me more political as well.
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If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.
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In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
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Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
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My one thing is respect. I don't care about anything else. You should respect everyone around you - the people who work for you, peers. Be classy.
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The day of the week changes, but one day in the week I eat vegetarian.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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Great ideology creates great times.
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I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.
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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.
