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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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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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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I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
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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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One thing about martial arts: People can say this fight game is dangerous and its brutal but my mind is strong. I'm fit in body and mind and that's something that not a lot of other careers can give to a person.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist. DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge.
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People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
