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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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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I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
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I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.
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I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.
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We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds.
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The beauty of impulse eating may be that you end up eating less—when you do eat—than someone who has been thinking about the food for hours. The more you think of something, the more of it you’ll eat.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things.
