Janet Fitch Quotes
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.
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It isn't that easy to live according to intuition, yet, it's so totally cool once we can get beyond the other voices and hear our intuition.
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The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.
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If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
