Christine Lavin Quotes
Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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'… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.'
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There's also really no way of knowing what Donald Trump is going to do - he's been sufficiently vague in his policy positions.
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It's not about the stuff. The issue is how we use that stuff and how do we train people to use that stuff. Do we use that stuff to confront people who are protesting in a community? Do we use a sniper rifle to see closer in a crowd? That's where it breaks down.
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Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.
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Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.
