Sarah Addison Allen Quotes
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.
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And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
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The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
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We don't think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events.
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The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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Whether you're making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, there's never enough time.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.
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Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
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One of the most effective organizations in our government. It is responsive. It is changing and highly accountable.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.
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Safe is just another word for scared.
