Mary Douglas Quotes
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I don't listen to opinions.
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'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar.
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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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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
