Sally Ride Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
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A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
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History was a living thing with an endless supply of stories, of lessons to apply to the present of one’s own life.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
