Nancy Pelosi Quotes
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.
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Coming from L.A. to D.C., I'm always impressed that in D.C., people are doing the things that the people in L.A. are pretending to do. Whenever I'm in D.C., I ask people what they do, and they say, 'I'm with the agency, or I'm with State.' In L.A., I ran into a guy who said, 'I'm working on an audition for a guy who happens to be with an agency.'
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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You just have to ensure that you make good films because audiences today have become picky and smart, and rightfully so.
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I remember the feeling of a tweed Chanel jacket because my mom used to wear one to work.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
