Agnes Macphail Quotes
Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I enjoy my life.
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Now I want to make it plain that 'The Virgin Spring' must be regarded as an aberration. It's touristic, a lousy imitation of Kurosawa.
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.
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When Obama took office, Republican appointees controlled ten of the thirteen circuit courts of appeals; Democratic appointees now constitute a majority in nine circuits. Because federal judges have life tenure, nearly all of Obama's judges will continue serving well after he leaves office.
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I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
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Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.
