Linda Lingle Quotes
Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
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If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
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There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.
