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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If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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The inspiration to write a song comes to me when something has happened to me more than once. If it's happened to me more than once, it's probably happened to other people.
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For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
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I do begin to have bloody thoughts.
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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.
