Joan Didion Quotes
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers -
Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'
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I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
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I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects.
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Climate change denial, anti-vaccination proponents, creationist teachers, faith healers, fake bomb detector peddlers, psychic frauds, alternative medicine pushers... we need scientific thinking. We need a generation of kids who think an experiment is more important than a preconceived notion or an argument from authority.
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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
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The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
