Amelia B. Edwards Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
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I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn't really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.
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If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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China leads the world in energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the release of major air and water pollutants, and the environmental impact is felt both regionally and globally.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.
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Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
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Non-alignment will continue to be the fundamental basis of our approach to world problems and our relations with other countries.
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Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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I'm one of the few lucky actors in the world. I've never waited tables. I never pumped gas. I've always earned a living. I never had to borrow from my parents. I was the first in our family to own a new car.
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I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional and three-dimensional images, because of how I read.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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A good script makes our job a lot easier.
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Every director is completely different.
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The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.
