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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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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I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, 'Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?' You just can't get stressed about the little things 'cause it's just not worth it at the end of the day.
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Everybody knows someone like that: wonderful, attractive people full of passion and ideals. You envy them, but you know there's a dark side, which is brutal and cruel and violent. That dark side informs what's wonderful about them, and the passion and rage inform the darkness; they're inseparable.
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The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.
