Alan Briskin Quotes
Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
Walter Dean Myers
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
Irina Shayk
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I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.
Dakota Fanning
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Pat Roberts
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
Rachel Bilson
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.
Jack Keane
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At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism.
Tea Obreht
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Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
Ambrose Bierce
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I'd speak of artistry you would roll your eyes skyward When I'd speak of spirituality you would label it absurd When I spoke of possibility you would frown and shake your head If I had stayed much longer, I'd have surely imploded
Alanis Morissette
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
Laurel Clark
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Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
Leonard Lauder
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I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boiling about the fact that we have palm oil put into every single one of our substances.
Joanna Lumley
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The PPP is not just a political party. This is our life.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
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My family never took vacations; we never traveled together. We never did anything. My spring breaks were going home to help my dad at the restaurant.
Pete Gallego
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Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!
Louis Theroux
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The Cardiff Half Marathon has already proved itself to be one of the biggest and best road races in the U.K., and when the best athletes in the world run on the same course, the times should be spectacular. But the real beauty of this event is that ordinary runners get the chance to line up on the same start line as the best athletes in the world.
Lynn Davies
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I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.
Andy Kindler
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I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.
Lindsey Vonn
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Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
Burton Richter
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Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.
Richard Smalley
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Wisdom is not developable, as if it's a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it's just not the case. Wisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life, for an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.
Alan Briskin