Quentin Blake Quotes
I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I am going to enjoy some other things apart from business.
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There's no business like show business.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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Dramatically at first - that's how I handle emotional pain. If there were an award given for these moments, then I would have a mantle full of gold statuettes. Then I take stock and seek counsel from people I trust and talk myself into a state of reflection and remember that it won't last forever.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
