Chuck Hagel Quotes
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.
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I was born and raised in New York, so I was blessed - or some say cursed - with a strong New York accent.
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I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.
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There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.
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the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.
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I believe, and always have, that America must engage - not retreat - in the world.
