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 not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
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I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.
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People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.
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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.
