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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Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.
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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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As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.
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It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.
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What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.
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I'd like to do some things over again. I never want to repeat anything that went well, though - I just want to do better at slightly different things.
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Few people today realize just how much faith in oneself that part of oneself which is spiritual, perfect has to do with achievement, because the great majority of people never seem to conceive of faith as being a genuine creative force. Yet the truth is that not only is Faith a bona fide power, but it is the greatest one we will ever encounter.
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When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.
