Angela Lansbury Quotes
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Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
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I've never lived through a moment in history where people are using their voices and becoming strong advocates for what they believe in.
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Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.
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I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.
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They say behind mountains are more mountains.
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Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.
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I never regretted what I turned down.
