Margaret Deland Quotes
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.
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The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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The first album I ever bought with my own money was 'Ten.' Every single song reminds me of my childhood.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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I'm very particular about what I want.
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Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
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I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen!
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My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
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My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.
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I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'
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Success isn't measured by the amount of people that watch you unless you allow it to be.
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I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC.
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God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.
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Convictions do not imply reasons.
