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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I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip 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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Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.
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We govern what the public think about.
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Practice doing yoga with an innocent mind. Then, you will be able to cognize the things happening in your body
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So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's one of the first things you should do, even though most don't, is to ask good actors who they think is right for the part. They know better than anybody. But without missing a beat Maggie said Pauline Collins. I didn't know Pauline because I hadn't seen Shirley Valentine, but then I saw this thing that she did with Woody Allen "You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger", in which she was wonderful as a psychic, and I said to her on the phone: "The dialogue seemed improvised."
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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.
