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Shirley Williams Quotes

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Shirley Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: July 27, 1930

Topics

Doing Nothing Anything Greater Does

I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him.

Joaquin Phoenix

Music Country Know Him Country Music

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

Tree Down Up Cut Against Been

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Democracy Action Army You Security

Debenhams has a strong track record for developing exclusive designer brands.

Matthew Williamson

Strong Track Exclusive Designer

I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.

Stephen Colletti

Power Beach Thought End Drama Know

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

Moment You Defining Moment Defining

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

Memory Same Years Film How Gestures

I think one of the most important things we can do as feminists is acknowledge that, even though we have womanhood in common, we have to start to think about the ways in which we're different, how those differences affect us, and what kinds of needs we have based on our differences.

Start Think Differences Important Us

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.

Think Television Why More I Think

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Leadership Political Attention Pay

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Good Myself People Me Think You

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

Jose Maria Aznar

Leader Time Opinion Better Political

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