Ann Wright Quotes
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
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If we continue doing the right things in Africa, we can create a very exciting and competitive global market here.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
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The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. for when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it.
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We created about 300 ambassadors for us, ... It's free advertising, and we're getting some great feedback from them.
