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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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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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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I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself. (5) tr. George Long (1888).
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No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.
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Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.
