Amanda Ripley Quotes
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.
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Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
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Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.
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You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
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The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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It's a little tight; I feel it still. I don't think it's that serious. I think it's something that will feel better.
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Let there be no doubt that any failure by Iraq to comply with its obligations will lead to serious consequences, ... For it is only the credible threat of force which has brought Iraq this far today.
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.
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Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
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Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for a while, and then it fades away. But if one of those lovers betrays the other, then you have a real emotion - then you have something powerful, something that leaves a mark you'll never be rid of. Betrayal is the most delicious of all, but it takes a while to set it up, and fear can be just as intense if you know what you're doing.
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There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.
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Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.
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The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
