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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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.
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And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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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.
