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PATRICIA GAFFNEY Fear kills. Protecting yourself backfires eventually. And living in fear of pain isn't really living...
PATRICIA GAFFNEY All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't ca...
PATRICIA GAFFNEY I love the slow, warming sensation of my body going numb when I drink.
PATRICIA GAFFNEY Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohib...
FRANK GAFFNEY Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that r...
FRANK GAFFNEY Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by...
FRANK GAFFNEY Having worked for him in the nuclear weapons policy business, I can tell you that President Reagan w...
FRANK GAFFNEY Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft und...
FRANK GAFFNEY After America won the Cold War, some believed we had come to the 'end of history,' and budge...
FRANK GAFFNEY Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - includ...
FRANK GAFFNEY Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing T...
FRANK GAFFNEY The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's pr...
FRANK GAFFNEY After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary...
FRANK GAFFNEY I don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists...
FRANK GAFFNEY History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World...
FRANK GAFFNEY I have thought about returning to club rugby and opportunities are limited in Australia.
ALAN GAFFNEY I have thought about returning to club rugby, I have always enjoyed it.
ALAN GAFFNEY The structure has to be amended. You've got to get the process right.
ALAN GAFFNEY Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, l...
FRANK GAFFNEY He came in with the intention of killing me.
BEN GAFFNEY I would have had to admit somebody else won.
BEN GAFFNEY ). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ...
FRANK GAFFNEY To his lasting credit, President Reagan never wavered. He recognized the strategic importance of sta...
FRANK GAFFNEY That's not speaking too highly of our passing corps. We wanted to take over the game and make it eas...
JABAR GAFFNEY It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has be...
FRANK GAFFNEY Putting together a magazine is like a scavenger hunt. You have to be able to fit all the puzzle piec...
MICHAEL GAFFNEY The Sprint Super Bowl XL Halftime Show garnered rave reviews. In conducting this unique poll to dete...
STEVE GAFFNEY Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that f...
FRANK GAFFNEY The issue for the administration is not going to get any better or smoother with time, as the public...
FRANK GAFFNEY President Bush has dug in his heels on a fight he surely cannot win. The deal will ... be aborted.
FRANK GAFFNEY I would like to think that there remains a reservoir -- call it patriotism, if you will, or call it ...
FRANK GAFFNEY Oil imports and the dark cloud they cast over this country requires dramatic and immediate attention...
FRANK GAFFNEY This is a detour, and we have to get around it. Time is not on our side, and Saddam is running out t...
FRANK GAFFNEY The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier ec...
FRANK GAFFNEY Were we to cancel it outright, I am convinced that what we will do is not only set back the effort t...
FRANK GAFFNEY The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or help...
FRANK GAFFNEY listed ISNA as one of 25 American Muslim organizations that 'finance terrorism and perpetuate violen...
FRANK GAFFNEY The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or help...
FRANK GAFFNEY We have to step up,
JABAR GAFFNEY The infection's going away, and my shoulder's good. I'll be back running real soon.
JABAR GAFFNEY It's really frustrating. I want to be out there. I see my guys out there making plays, and I want to...
JABAR GAFFNEY We'll look at the tape and see what they were doing, ... Because I'm sure the next team and some mor...
JABAR GAFFNEY They've got a good defense, ... I'd like to see their defense later on down the road, but we won't p...
JABAR GAFFNEY They gave us a couple of different looks that we really didn't prepare for, so it threw off our timi...
JABAR GAFFNEY We were out there. We were running routes. We were open. We're just waiting on the ball to come to u...
JABAR GAFFNEY I want to get the rust off and get ready, ... Because when it starts up for real, that's when it cou...
JABAR GAFFNEY After I take my first lick on it, then I'll really be able to gauge it, ... But it's feeling real go...
JABAR GAFFNEY Last summer we had a really illiquid bond market because the market was nervous about weakness in th...
KATHLEEN GAFFNEY While earnings are strong and commodity prices are firming, I think if you look at the big picture, ...
KATHLEEN GAFFNEY If their doctor thinks they should try this, we should give them legal access.
JENNI GAFFNEY Rep. Wallace told me she had not known there were people in this area interested in this issue. She ...
JENNI GAFFNEY So far Bill Richardson has not made a decision about whether to place the medical marijuana issue on...
JENNI GAFFNEY It has become our main publication. I think there are thousands of female-owned businesses out there...
MICHAEL GAFFNEY Our obligation is for the right budget for our schools.
PAUL GAFFNEY Most Americans will be horrified that President Obama is compromising our deterrent to chemical and ...
FRANK GAFFNEY It should be interesting getting that first winning streak, and I'm pretty confident we're going to ...
SCOTT GAFFNEY A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to s...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scatte...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami...
PATRICIA RAE One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace...
PATRICIA RAE You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo...
PATRICIA RAE I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
PATRICIA POLACCO My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won...
PATRICIA POLACCO I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare...
PATRICIA POLACCO I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat...
PATRICIA POLACCO Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart...
PATRICIA POLACCO When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
PATRICIA POLACCO When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX