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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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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You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
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I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.
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Safety from feeling shamed, admonished, or judged, and to bolster the courage to tolerate, face, and process the reality of what has happened.
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Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I never regretted what I turned down.
