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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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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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 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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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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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card...
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Goodness," Myrnin said quietly. "I don't think I should be watching this. I don't think I'm old enough.
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My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
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I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.
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Peace. That's what I want all around the world, everywhere I go I always do the peace sign with my fingers.
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Accept loss forever.
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
