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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I grew up performing in theatre.
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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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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
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The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.
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Or if I truly gave up I could be like Wet Lindsay. When Robbie dumped her she got all pale and even wetter than normal. She was like an anoraksick. (A person who is both very thin and wears tragic anoraks.) I just made that up as a joke. Even though I am very upset I can still think of a joke.
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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.
