Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
Octavia E. Butler -
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
Eddie Albert -
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde -
The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour -
I don't want to become known as just a body.
Taylor Lautner
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
Jack Vance -
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
Rabih Alameddine -
I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
Nate Berkus -
People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
Laila Ali
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Although it's hard some days to wake up an hour earlier to do the gym workout as opposed to other skaters who just show up to the rink, I know that if I don't do it, my day will be much worse. I might as well not even skate, actually.
Patrick Chan -
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
Sally Quinn -
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.
Margaret Mead -
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.
Buffalo Bill
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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
Jonathan Zittrain -
Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.
Seth Godin -
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
Karl Marx -
For Russia, there is not and there may not be another political option but democracy. However, Russian democracy is... not at all the realization of standards imposed on us from outside.
Vladimir Putin -
Worry is often a symptom of imperfect information.
Charlie Jane Anders