Alison Fell Quotes
New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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Years are not important, my dear.
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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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Worried thought prevents practical thought which could prevent worried thought.
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We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
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I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
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In 2007, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
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I understand German; I can read German.
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My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.
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Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
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You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.
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At the end of the day I'll go to a yoga class. I used to say that my work was my yoga, because it stretches everything, expands and challenges everything you know and understand and are.
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I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.
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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
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I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all had to stop. People do come up to you so often and say hello, or want a photograph, and I just can't do it anymore in what I used to wear. They don't want to be seen hanging off a rabid old granny any more than I do.
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
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New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.
