Joanne Liu Quotes
Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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Motion pictures are a director's medium. Broadway is a writer's medium. Television is a producer's medium. I picked a medium I could control.
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Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?'
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I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.
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I grew up in a town called Subang Jaya, and made a lot of friends from around Kuala Lumpur.
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Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.
