Alexander Stille Quotes
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone's got to make a wake up call.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.'
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I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light. … Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies and earths beneath us - many days, many nights of stars.
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Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
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To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed
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The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren't thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about - they weren't putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.
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For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
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The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.
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We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
