Anthony Giddens Quotes
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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I climb mountains.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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A lot of my music has ambiguity and room for people to interpret.
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I know that I'm a natural attacking player. I love to attack. I love to play freely; I love to combine and play through balls. That's the nature of my game.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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It wasn't easy tolerating him talking this way to her, to bear his scorn, his ridicule, his insults, his walking past her like she was nothing but a house cat. But after four years of marriage, Mariam saw clearly how much a woman could tolerate when she was afraid. And Mariam was afraid.
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When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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Consumers have to understand that the purpose of these claims is to get them to buy the product.
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The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
