Aaryn Gries Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
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Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
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Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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Lara Croft is completely different; the way she does the action scenes and maintains her body in perfect condition... I can't compete with her in any way.
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If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover.
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I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.
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The health-care sector certainly employs more people and more machines than it did. But there have been no great strides in service. In Western Europe, most primary-care practices now use electronic health records and offer after-hours care; in the United States, most don't.
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So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
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I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.
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People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute.
