Alice Mattison Quotes
It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Team members need to learn to leverage one another, and that doesn't happen over a golf game or on a phone. It happens by getting together and taking the time to know each other.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
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Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
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Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need.
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You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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It's hard to say which of us is luckier, the ones who go through long periods when they can't write or the ones who can write pretty easily.
