Allison Janney Quotes
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I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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The most challenging thing is people do see me as a tennis player, but I've had a lot of opportunities because I am a tennis player. And I don't mind that.
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How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
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I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
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Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
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The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems.
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Bill Clinton is not a hypocrite. If a man believes that it is just and moral to redistribute wealth, there is nothing hypocritical in his attempts to redistribute some of that wealth to himself.
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In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable - almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority simply because it is the will of the majority.
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Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side... we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.
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The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.
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Only when you don't impose things on it do you get real political theatre.
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Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.
