Maeve Binchy Quotes
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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No two wars are identical.
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The world expects India to be one of the leaders in solving the problems of politics and economics. India sits at the high table in most major multilateral deliberations. What India says is heard with attention and seriousness.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
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We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.
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There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.
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My favorite genre is definitely romantic comedy. I love 'When Harry Met Sally.'
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We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.