Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
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When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.
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I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
