M. Stanton Evans Quotes
When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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To every New Yorker - and to all those who believed in what I tried to stand for - I sincerely apologize.
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
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You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
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I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
