"Some people are really good at their jobs, some people are really bad."

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Source : "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

Anna Chlumsky

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“[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning.”
“What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.”
“A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.”
“I hope to see the two great religions, Islam and Christianity, hand-in-hand, embracing each other. Then the Torah and the Bible and the Qurâ€™an will become books supporting one another being read everywhere, and respected by every nation â€¦ [I am] looking forward to seeing Muslims read the Torah and the Bible.”
“It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.”
“Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November.”

Source : "News From CNN" with Fredricka Whitfield, www.cnn.com. March 26, 2004.
“Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.112
“So much goes into doing a transplant operation. All the way from preparing the patient, to procuring the donor. It's like being an astronaut. The astronaut gets all the credit, he gets the trip to the moon, but he had nothing to do with the creation of the rocket, or navigating the ship. He's the privileged one who gets to drive to the moon. I feel that way in some of these more difficult operations, like the heart transplant.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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