Alice Kuipers Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Without a dog, you'll be without at least one creature who thinks you are the smartest, most decent and heroic human being on the planet.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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If you have children, you know you're responsible for somebody. You realize you are being imitated; your belief systems and priorities have a direct influence on these children, who are like flowers in a garden.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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Random distributions are not good things, because people are risk-averse, and this risk adversely affects their welfare. If you get too much price uncertainty, all kinds of long-term, mutually beneficial contracts can't be entered into.
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Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.
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Anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.
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Number 40: Love is worth the risk.
