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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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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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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The free market punishes irresponsibility. Government rewards it.
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An Englishman thinks first of his work - his job, he calls it - and then of his sport, and last - a good way last - of his wife.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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Many of the people I work with that are half my age complain that they feel tired all the time. I tell them: 'Look at what you're eating, how much you are exercising, and how much sleep you are getting.'
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So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
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Usually, I would mistrust a book if it took that long to write. Usually, if it isn't done in two years, I suspect there's something wrong and throw it away.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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Objectivity is almost a choice you make. As a burlesque performer, I didn't choose to be objectified.
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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.
