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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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
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You always respect the vets.
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I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
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Your words and wishes are cheap if they do not find expression in your actual gifts.
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When moonlight french kisses the Manhattan midnight
