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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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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Films are like oxygen for me.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.
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The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.
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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.
