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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We've all tried to bunk our gym session or dance class. A single routine can get monotonous. That's why I have decided to make my fitness regime fun by incorporating different workouts into my schedule. From dancing to yoga, I plan to keep it as interesting as possible so I'm never bored of working out.
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The quality of that 'who I am', is what I hope comes out in the writing.
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The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.
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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.
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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.
