Laura Dekker Quotes
I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
Laura Dekker
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
Randy Neugebauer
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
Hallie Ephron
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
Gail Carson Levine
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham Lincoln
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There is a secret agreement between past generations and the present one. Our coming was expected on earth. Like every generation that preceded us, we have been endowed with a weak Messianic power, a power to which the past has a claim. That claim cannot be settled cheaply.
Walter Benjamin
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I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
Ted Olson
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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.
J. B. Priestley
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For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.
Deborah Tannen
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
Benoit Mandelbrot
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
Laura Dekker
