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Who Quotes
Quotes on who matters and why.
These quotes highlight who shaped someone or who stands out in a field - teenage musical influences, or the rarity of actors who combine action skills with classical theater training. Related reading includes He Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been somebody who needs their car or other material, larger possessions to say something flashy about them.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
Michelle has had to grapple with Hilary Clinton's legacy as First Lady... Michelle Obama never wants to be seen as the kind of First Lady who is overly involved in the West Wing.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those close to Mr. Obama say he grows irritated at being misunderstood - not just by opponents who insinuate that he caters to African-Americans, but also by black lawmakers and intellectuals who fault him for not making his presidency an all-out assault on racial disparity.
- Awareness
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always play girls who are quite traumatised, or a plain girl, but I'm happy with that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want Angolans who have fortunes abroad to be the first to invest in the country, thus demonstrating that they are true patriots.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be such a stigma, making that transition to various entertainment medias. There are a couple of actresses who have cut it quite well, and I consider myself one.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would love to go to Hawaii and do 'Hawaii Five-0,' because who doesn't want to work in Hawaii?
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020