Laurie Graham Quotes

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

Laurie Graham

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Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

John Berger

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Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

John Matuszak

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My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

John Piper

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My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

Amal Clooney

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I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

Story Musgrave

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I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

Michael McCaul

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I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

Dirk Nowitzki

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My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

Dixie Carter

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I've always said that I don't believe in Santa Claus, but I could make a great movie about him if I set my mind to it.

Dean Devlin

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Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

Arlen Specter

PartyToo MuchSometimesWillMuch

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

Pete Burns

FightRightIndividual

I tend to write in the mornings.

Scott Turow

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