Meredith Whitney Quotes
People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People's Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
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Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
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I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.
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People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
