Wendy Davis Quotes
Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.
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I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.
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I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
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Texans deserve better than failed leaders who dole out favors to friends and cronies behind closed doors. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future. It's time for a governor who believes that the future of Texas belongs to all of us.
