Martina Hingis Quotes
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like it's fun and they're involved and are just, like, friends hanging out in somebody's living room. I went to see Carole King on her 'Living Room' Tour, and that's the kind of feeling I'm aiming for.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.
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Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?
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I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
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My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.
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She's here with her girlfriend. She's half a man.
