Katherine Boo Quotes
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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Being evil is easy.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Fortunately, it's still not too late to develop a comprehensive global strategy to eliminate our real enemy.
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I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
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As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.