Emma Bonino Quotes
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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I have been shocked at the number of people who don't watch television.
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I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
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People tell me that Hollywood loves new faces, but I don't know. They're probably just being nice.
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I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?
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It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.
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Jennifer Aniston is a genius.
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I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.
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It's a process of getting to know people. That's what photography is to me. It's about paying attention, not screwing up and blowing a great opportunity.
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I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.
