Wendy Davis Quotes
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Faith is the head chemist of the mind.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.