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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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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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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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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I really want to keep on opening doors for myself, and others who want to come in.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
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I would like to see more African-American singers as part of our opera companies. If you take music and the arts out of the public schools, then you're going to lose a lot of people that you might have discovered were talented, very early.
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My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.
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Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
