Lilli Palmer Quotes
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Quinoa is great for lazy day cooking because it's packed with complete proteins, but it cooks in only 20 minutes. And, you can flavor it any way you wish! I make mine with onions, lots of ground ginger, turmeric and coriander, and then whatever dried fruit and nuts I have around.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I'm going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I've known my whole life. It's not something I just thought of. I've known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn't know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi.
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Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
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If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.
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I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both.
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Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.
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Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.
