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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I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.
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I have a rendezvous with life.
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Life is short, so there is no reason why you shouldn't live it to the fullest expression of yourself.
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I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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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.
