John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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I'm really silly. That's the thing that people don't get.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.
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Every apartment I've ever lived in has had a space to make, create, and get stuff done within eyesight of my bed.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Life is ever lord of DeathAnd Love can never lose its own.
