Lady Gregory Quotes
What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
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What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.
