Shana Alexander Quotes
Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.
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My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
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My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
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Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.
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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
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In the case of 'Goon Squad,' which sold slowly for a long time despite the good reviews, those 'best of 2010' lists were pivotal, and made the book really sell.
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Huge herds of vigorous, curious, open-eyed Americans freely roaming the world are, it seems to me, quite possibly a vital national resource today as at no other time in our history.
