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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I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
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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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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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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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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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The most important thing is always to feel comfortable - I would never sacrifice function for style.
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I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.
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...girls who had read Wittgenstein as high school baby-sitters were rejected because the school’s quota of abnormally intelligent students had already been filled that year.
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There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.
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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
