Bella Abzug Quotes
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.
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You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
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A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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Someone will say he's too young of a guy. Well, only thee years ago they hired an older man who took them to the promised land.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
