Ariana Franklin Quotes
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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There was a time in my life when one aspect of my lifestyle called for watching a lot of television.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.
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I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.
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Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.
