W. Averell Harriman Quotes
I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire; and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gate of heaven.
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Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, we've influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.
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It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.
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I had a picture-perfect childhood.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.
