Sigrid Undset Quotes
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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Politics ruins the character.
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Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.
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There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I always try to show there's a way for the kids that feel like they're lowlives. In anything you want, you can be the greatest at it, even without school, if you want. Know your route.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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The reason why I hated school so intensely was that it interfered with my freedom.
