V. Vale Quotes
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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It drives me crazy when your parents try to read your mind. It's even worse when they try to read your mail.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.
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I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.
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When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
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What I'm concerned with is what I would call the missing history - the invisible imprint of our stay on Earth and in time.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
