Andre Ethier Quotes
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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They gave me star treatment when I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.
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I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.
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Growing up, I never was a big follower of the Dodgers.
