Amanda Craig Quotes
I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
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Time stays, we go.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.
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Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.
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My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.
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I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
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Madison Avenue is responsible for that, ... In fact, 'Beach Girls' (her upcoming Lifetime movie) is made for, designed for, and targeted to the 18 to 34 age group.
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[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.
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I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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We cannot heal what we cannot feel.
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The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.
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After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
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I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.
