Joanne Liu Quotes
Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.
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There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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We're seeing it the same way, we're hearing the same way, we have the same conception of the situation. And so, for all purposes, we are operating with a very similar perception.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.
