Louise Slaughter Quotes
The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.
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I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was somebody's else's work and someone else's vision.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
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It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
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Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
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I thought this was the first game all year that I thought we deserved to win. I thought we did a great job. I think we brought our toughness to the table, and we just had a few things slip through our fingers.
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I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
