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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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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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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I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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People hate people who are good at things. People hate people who are cute.
