Margaret Thatcher Quotes
Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
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One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
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A manager of people needs to understand that all people are different. This is not ranking people. He needs to understand that the performance of anyone is governed largely by the system that he works in, the responsibility of management.
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I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?'
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Helpmate, n. A wife, or bitter half.
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Mark Miller is my brother and I love him dearly.
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If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.
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I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.
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Everybody thought I was crazy. They thought I should take the money and run. But there was just something special about being a senior at Chapel Hill. I just couldn't leave.
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The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.
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The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
