Lillian Gish Quotes
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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I'd be happy if, during my mandate, the Palestinian state existed.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
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It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
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Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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There's life outside Backstreet Boys that is going on and continuing.
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I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.
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We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.
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From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.
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Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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On a fundamental level - I know so many women in their 30s who didn't get married, or they did and it didn't work out, or they didn't have children because they were trying to get their careers going, or because they were expected to be independent, plus have a family. They didn't feel secure enough.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.
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I always had a kind of Myth of Cincinnatus idea about politics - that public service was something you do for a while in between stints at real life. And when your time is up, you return to the plow, which is hopefully still somewhere close to where you left it.
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Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust....Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place.
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If you're caught acting, nobody believes you.
