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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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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p. 162-3 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
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In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.
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It is impossible for any Christian who spends the bulk of his evenings, month after month, week upon week, day in and day out watching the major TV networks or contemporary videos to have a Christian mind. This is always true of all Christians in every situation! A Biblical mental program cannot coexist with worldly programming.
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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.
