Bobby Riggs Quotes
If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I think about the sentence a long time, and then I write it. I don't revise it once it's set down.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
