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Diane Abbott Quotes

You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: September 27, 1953

Topics

You Say Defend Anything Sounds

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.

Faith Vision Responsibility Job You

For me, the best rock is not what you play - it's what you're not playing.

Best Me You Play Rock Playing

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Simple You Dollar Got Just Chain

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Power History Roots Building Back

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

Age History Time People Society

I thought my second record was good, but it didn't have that smash hit we did on the first one that somehow found its way onto tons of formats of radio stations.

Good Thought Way First Radio Found

Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.

Women Children You Down Never Lived

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

Mickalene Thomas

Work Art Woman Black Political You

I think there's a character one has if you're a chief executive officer. Movies would suggest you're a bad person - if you're wealthy, if you've done well, oh, you must be bad. And frankly, winning the lottery doesn't change who you are; you're the same person inside. And I'm the same person I was as an 18-year-old who fell in love with Ann.

Love Change Character Winning Think

When I saw 'Hamilton,' it changed my life. It's one of the most beautiful things I saw on stage.

Life Beautiful My Life Stage Saw

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.

Great Picture Speech Texture Seen

It's a misconception that you don't have seasons in southern California. They are just very subtle. The vegetation is very different. Plants react differently. You just have to be a little more observant.

Christoph Waltz

Plants Seasons You React California

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