Lesley Stahl Quotes
I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.
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A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.
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It was too much Tequila, or not quite enough.
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Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
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Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
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I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.
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I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.
