Anthony Giddens Quotes
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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I want to have a long career.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.
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Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
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There's something amazing about 'Fawlty Towers' and 'The Office' only being two series. I think, when you really nail it, you don't need to do more than two or three.
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Miranda Kerr is absolutely lovely.
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The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
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The representatives of young professionals and woman entrepreneurs deserve seats at the big table to evolve viable, efficient, and sustainable solutions for problems the world is faced with. Without their participation, there will always be a deficit of compassion and innovation.
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Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
