Phyllis Theroux Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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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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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Since religion intrinsically rejects empirical methods, there should never be any attempt to reconcile scientific theories with religion. An infinitely old universe, always evolving, may not be compatible with the Book of Genesis. However, religions such as Buddhism get along without having any explicit creation mythology and are in no way contradicted by a universe without a beginning or end. Creatio ex nihilo, even as religious doctrine, only dates to around AD 200. The key is not to confuse myth and empirical results, or religion and science.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.
