Ricky Ponting Quotes
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
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Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.
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The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.
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I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?' and they'll be like, 'Yeah, now let me read it.'
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It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . .
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What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.
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Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera for serum proteins does not succeed so regularly as with agglutinins and lysins for blood cells. This may be due to the fact that in the evolutional scale the proteins undergo continuous variations whereas cell antigens are subject to sudden changes not linked by intermediary stages.
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I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.
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I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.
