Genevieve Valentine Quotes
You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.
Quotes to Explore
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
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I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
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It wasn't nice having to work full-time. It's a rise that I wouldn't have predicted, but it's a good example for younger players of what can be achieved.
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What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
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I don't really consider myself religious. I view it more as a relationship. And if anyone thinks that's weird, then okay.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.
