Lindsay Duncan Quotes
My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.
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I wake up and check my Instagram to see what I missed out on last night. Then I check my Twitter. Then I check my Tumblr.
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I really looked up to Grace Kelly when I was growing up. I thought she was just so beautiful and elegant. I wanted to grow up to be like her.
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At leat I'm not crazy and out of control. At least I don't feel the need to tell the whole world about every single problem in my life.
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The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.
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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
