Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Quotes
In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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A very small bunch of corrupt politicians believe that allowing Radovan Karadzic to stay at liberty is more important than this country having a future in NATO and peace for its citizens.
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Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
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Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.
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‘Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.’
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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.
