Mal Peet Quotes
Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
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Let's make Jeb Bush explain his plan to give millionaires another massive tax cut.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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The time is right for electric cars - in fact the time is critical.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
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Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
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Really, subtlety is what is really important to me and my work.
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I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
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Football is a bit like chess: it's not just the piece being moved that matters; it's also the effect that move has on all the other pieces.
