David McCleary Sheldon (Mac Lethal) Quotes
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.
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What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.
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I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
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When I look into the Ericsson's mobility report that has predictions till 2018, the majority of people having mobile broadband by 2018 will be on 3G.
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I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
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I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters.
Colson Whitehead -
I don't trade my vote for money.
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Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The west has been a particularly vigorous exponent of this credo; and there is no reason to believe that China, for example, will be any different. But behind the moral rhetoric invariably lies interest and ideology.
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When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight
