Maggie Smith Quotes
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
