LaDonna Adrian Gaines (Donna Summer) Quotes
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.
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The economy needs thriving, job-creating small businesses, but excessive and ill-considered regulations too often get in the way of growth.
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Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.
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I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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I tested on a lot of TV shows and films after I finished drama school.
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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
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One can't feel old in a day or overnight!
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Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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I guess I’m just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation’s laws.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records - Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like the same things other folks like who are other races.
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The Function of Reason (1929), Beacon Books, 1958, p. 16
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If the only people we are able to extend empathy to are those who are like us, who come from the same country we do, or who share our faith, then we misunderstand what empathy is.
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I was living in a small town in Indiana working as a telemarketer and a vacuum salesman. I was really bad: the vacuums seemed to always be falling apart. Every time I did a demonstration, I'd say, 'This is the material the astronauts used on Apollo 13.' And no sooner had that come out of my mouth, something would malfunction.
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I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.
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When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.
