Leah Ward Sears Quotes
I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.
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By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.
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Politics is just show business for ugly people.
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One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.
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One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
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I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.
