Eliza Doolittle Quotes
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I have played a lot of roles in my career where I'm the sexual interest. I'm always having to fight that.
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The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.
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Art and science have their meeting point in method.
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Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.
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You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
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Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
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Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.
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I don't prepare for wearing a bikini; I always have a bit of a tummy.
