Christine Quinn Quotes
I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.
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Get through today – you can fall apart tomorrow. Get through tomorrow, you can fall apart the day after . . .
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures - joined with the similar failures of others - can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
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I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.
