Lynn Coady Quotes
Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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I've always been a headstrong girl. I had my first child at 17, and it was a mistake, but I got a beautiful child out of it.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!
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I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive.
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I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
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Let's not confuse traditional behaviours with good manners. The definition of etiquette is gender neutral - it simply means we strive at all times to ensure a person in our company feels at ease.
