Alicia Ostriker Quotes
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I never understood the idea of canceling a show when you don't like the politics of a specific state.
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Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Excess is excrement.
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The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.
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Every man and every woman is a star.
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I am only one, but I am one. I can't do everything, but I can do something. The something I ought to do, I can do. And by the grace of God, I will
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Over the years I have had the most contact with Lee Kuan Yew, most recently in 2006, and have always found him impressive, even though we do not always see eye to eye. I met him first when he was George Shultz's guest at the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Bohemian Grove, a male only bonding retreat among the redwoods of California.
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My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable.
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I never want to forget that I'm doing an impossible thing. How rare is it that you get to be part of something people love? It's really special. It's a very out-of-body experience to be a part of something so huge.
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Thursday night football should be illegal.
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Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.
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The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.
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I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.
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Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.
