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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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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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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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
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You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.
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I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.
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Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.
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I think place and time for me is often a matter of convenience, something I can use to another end rather than something I'm trying to define because it's somehow fascinating to me in itself. It's more what the place can do for the larger goals I have for the work.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
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Life is Time Management and then you're dead.
