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 prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.
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The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.
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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
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The idea that there is a meritocracy where anyone from any background really might have the social and economic mobility to rise to the top in Silicon Valley, those are antithetical to a lot of the principles that the Trump administration apparently stands for.
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Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities.
