Abby Wambach Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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Afghanistan is a land-locked country.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.
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The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
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I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, 'What should I do now?' It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant.
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I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'
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So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
