Linda Ronstadt Quotes
Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
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You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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I can't be a creative person if I'm a celebrity.
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You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
