Jane McGonigal Quotes
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
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U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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The dependencies of inner and outer Mongolia are the bulwarks of China. The desert of Gobi, stretching for ten thousand li, is a barrier set by Heaven to the Russians, and if they seek to invade our borders, they will find it everywhere along the Northern frontier difficult and troublesome.
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To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
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Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.
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There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
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I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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I'm neither a millennial nor a hipster.
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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
