Gail Tsukiyama Quotes
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.
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I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.
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I love going to other people's weddings, but I have never desired a big white wedding for myself, and it has never been put on me as a pressure, an expectation.
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The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.
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There are still a lot of people who have the expectation that they're entitled to everything and want to pay for nothing.
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My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
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Expecting anybody else?" Shane asked Eve. "Your distant cousin Jack the Ripper dropping by too?" "Screw you, Collins.
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Torture can destroy the social fabric of communities, degrade a society's institutions, and undermine the integrity of its political systems.
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Until I got the weight off, there was something inside of me that said, 'You hate yourself.' You get too depressed over the weight to really work on this. For whatever reason, I had to take the weight off to do this work.
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Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.
