Leland Stanford Quotes
There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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I am a proud Christian who has been greatly tutored by Hindus and Buddhists and Sufis and others, and I stand and I speak from that place.
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No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
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There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.
