Beatrice Sparks Quotes
Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.
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Ever since I took to the streets when I was 17 to protest at great personal risk against the communist dictatorship, I have been a passionate democrat.
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Let us have peace.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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Pitchers are smart. They know they are much better off if they mix things up and keep you off-balance.
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I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.
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I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
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I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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It’s a nice feeling to make and break records but one shouldn’t get too used to it because it’s not going to happen every time. So no point competing with previous records. I believe we should work hard, try our best and then let people decide if they like the film or not.
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I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
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Once in a while, when it comes to taking risks, youthful naivete pays better dividends than do knowledge and experience.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.
