Eliza Doolittle Quotes
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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For me, if something fits properly, it makes me feel good.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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Reality-including one’s own-is divine, not to be defied but honored.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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Here sit I, as a little child; The threshold of God's door Is that clear band of chrysoprase; Now the vast temple floor, The blinding glory of the dome I bow my head before. Thy universe, O God, is home, In height or depth, to me; Yet here upon thy footstool green Content am I to be; Glad when is oped unto my need Some sea-like glimpse of Thee.
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I'm big on research.
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The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
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I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
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I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
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When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Doing voiceovers is so great because even though many people would think it's just your voice, you really do use all your physicality. I've done everything from playing a butterfly to Alice in Wonderland when she's 10 feet tall, so it allows you to be an actor and build new characters.
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Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
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I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
