Inga Cadranel Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.
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I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
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What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
