Aleksandra Mir Quotes
You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
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It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
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Many of my clients have become close friends, and that informs the clothing I design for them. Julianna Margulies was introduced to me by her publicist many years ago, and we've been good friends ever since.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. It's easy to point at me. I'm convenient.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.
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Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.
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There are a lot of really valuable services that are always pushing you to communicate with other people. But there are relatively few services that are about helping you be the person you want to be and fulfilling your ambitions.
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You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
