Monica Crowley Quotes
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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Voting is as much an emotional act as it is an intellectual one.
