Veronica Franco Quotes
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I want to try everything.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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The Olympics are very proprietary about letting others promote and market what's going on, so we shut down for 17 days, and they don't let us do a whole lot in return for giving our players to them. We don't get compensated, and we've never looked for compensation.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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In order to improve healthcare, we'll have to spend more on it, increase accountability and decentralize services, enforce standards and reinstate people's faith in it.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I love raising awareness and encouraging people to take action for World Environment Day, because it demonstrates how individual voices can become a global chorus for change.
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What I love is acting, and the technical stuff does tend to slow things down.
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People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail.
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Such a gift might be easily taken back again.
