Michael Kadoorie Quotes
I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.
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But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
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I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.
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What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country.
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You can't control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
