Lisa Jewell Quotes
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Islam means peace.
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I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.
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Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
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One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
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It's becoming more and more the choice to feed starving countries.
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I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.
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All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.
