Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.
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If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.
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The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
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The war against terrorism is one we must win.
