Linda Chavez Quotes
The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'
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I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
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In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.
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Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
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The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.
