Anna Held Quotes
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
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I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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Returns matter a lot. It's our capital.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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The House of Representatives has never sued a sitting president in all of U.S. history.
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What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.
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We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.
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I made a ton of money.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.
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For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes?
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John McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.
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I was very adept at acquiring languages.
