Alexander Stille Quotes
I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.

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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I was a diabetic for 16 years, since I was 14. Being that I lost weight, no more diabetes. You don't have to lose your eyesight, cut off your toes, have a stroke, get kidney failure. You just have to lose weight - you know - for most of the diabetes.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I have watched a number of Megastar Chiranjeevi garu's films after becoming an actress.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
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If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
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If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
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I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
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California is an unusual and electric kind of state - it's wonderful. All sorts of things happen there.
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Most young actors, that's all they're trying to do: Get better at acting and be able to keep doing it. And that doesn't work out for most people.
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
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I don't think people have fully processed how deeply television has changed the political process in our own world. Political parties have become vestiges of what they were and individuals with large amounts of money can leapfrog over that process, which can have a positive mediating effect. And so I think there are things to worry about.