Monica Ali Quotes
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.
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History develops, art stands still.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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' Don't write, Ralph. You'll bring shame on your family. ' - Hunter S. Thompson -
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When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'
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Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.
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I think that special relationship between the UK and the US has been an important part of security across the world particularly to the West.
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If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.
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It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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A new car is not going to change your life.
