Ann Richards Quotes
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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Wer den Daumen auf dem Beutel hat, der hat die Macht.
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The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported.
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If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
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Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.
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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
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In the '90s there were these great end of the world movies like 'Armageddon' and 'Deep Impact'... I always liked the idea of what people on the ground are doing, not so much the people who are trying to stop the world from ending.
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I would have never run for office if it wasn't for the fact that my biggest threat to my company was the federal government and the overreach of the EPA. They've gone too far, and it's time for them to be pulled back in.
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Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake.
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I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.
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Each of us has about 100,000 [kinesins] running around, right now, inside each one of your 100 trillion cells. So no matter how lazy you feel, you're not really intrinsically doing nothing.
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… we're going to tell how the cow ate the cabbage.
