Les Dawson Quotes
When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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Very few of us can stop our lives and become activists.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing.
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
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Love is staying up all night with a sick child - or a healthy adult.
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
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When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light.
