Al Sears Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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I hated 'Dilbert.'
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When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.
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To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed . I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).
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In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
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We didn't run away from our work.
