Francis Aungier Quotes
With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I was an English major in college!
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
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My films are personal-voice-driven films about human characters and the place we live. Technically, I'm an independent filmmaker.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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He saw wan Woman toil with famished eyes; He saw her bound, and strove to sing her free. He saw her fall'n; and wrote "The Bridge of Sighs"; And on it crossed to immortality.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.
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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
