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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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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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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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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It's different from Washington in that in the legislature, you have to go home and have a job and actually make a living on your own. That gives you a different perspective.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.
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Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
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When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'
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If the culture is so all pervasive that you can’t think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
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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.
