Lisa Murkowski Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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It's nice to be needed.
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Trevor Horn has worked with some of the biggest stars there is. And he was happy to do a record with me. He's worked with some amazing people, and then there's little old me walking in.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
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The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.
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Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
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The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.
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In all honesty, my favorite place to write is an anonymous, cheap hotel in a city or town where nobody knows me, the wireless service is spotty, and the adjoining gas station has coffee, beer and junk food.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.
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In order to represent the state, you've got to be in the state.
