Alice Kuipers Quotes
I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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Judaism shouldn't be the jailhouse of ideas but a liberator of ideas; not a disintegrator of people but what brings people together.
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It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.
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Food still isn't my thing, but I've learned to respect its power and significance.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.
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The sun provides the moon with its brightness.
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There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.
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The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world.
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It's a black Southern belief that blue glass keeps out bad spirits.
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At a party recently I was introduced to Meryl Streep, and it took me a second to get my head around it. You know, that I'm meeting these people now. I'm doing it.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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There was a time when I was 23 years old that I thought my career was over because I couldn't move my hand. It turned out it was just a pinched nerve.
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It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
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I wish I had more time for… exercise. As a working mum, I find that I make time for my son and for writing but exercise is sliding.
