Heidi Julavits Quotes
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
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I don't need any nicknames.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces.
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You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
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Dream is only a memory of the future.
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I care not whether the soldiers are of Milesian, Teutonic, African or Angelo-Saxon descent. I despise the principle that make a difference between them in the hour of battle and of death.
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I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
