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.Amanda Ripley
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
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.
Samuel Barnett -
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
Patricia Clarkson -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde -
Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
My goal isn't to shock.
Taylor Momsen
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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.
Kacey Musgraves -
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.
Harold Hamm -
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.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen -
You can't take the New York out of the girl. It's like a little country girl coming to the big city.
Randee Heller -
The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
Alex Wolff
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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.
Jack Straw -
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.
A. E. Hotchner -
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.
Oprah Winfrey -
Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.
Robert Frost -
We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.
Michael D. Barnes -
Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!
Nushrat Bharucha
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Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.
Minnie Pearl -
The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
Barbara Jordan -
You do a film and you know where you're going, you have this material to stretch and play with as much as possible because you know how it ends.
Norman Reedus -
The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.
Amanda Ripley