W. Averell Harriman Quotes
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.
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'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.
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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.
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Solar, for example - which has typically been thought of as so expensive - is cheap when compared with, for example, the cost of cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Gulf.
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I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things.
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Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.
