Carrie Fletcher Quotes
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
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Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.
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I hate to travel. I don't go anywhere.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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One thing most people would agree is that climate change would add further uncertainties to our already quite tight water supply situation in China.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.
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She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge...
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Travel is stressful.
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When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
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To succeed in the tech industry, you start businesses, make money, and make smart investments. But to succeed in the tech community, you do and build awesome things, are generous with your time and efforts, and make a point of making space for strangers - without any expectation of payback.
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'The Dark Knight,' 'The Rocketeer' and definitely the first 'Superman' movie by Richard Donner are the best. I tend to be softer in my judgment about what's a bad movie - I don't think anyone intends to make a bad movie, and sometimes it just doesn't click for some reason.
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.
