Louise Mensch Quotes
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of things to a lot of people. I don't really talk about it that often, because there's too much talk in the world. Especially with Christians, there's more proselytizing than there is actual living proof of it. That's kind of sad.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked.
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By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Love is intense, and sadness is intense.
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My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them.
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I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
