Christina Stead Quotes
She saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
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I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.
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I saw what he went through. The crying, the screaming in pain, and how much it hurt. I watched that and feel in my heart that people shouldn't have to go through that.
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.
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She saw her husband for the first time: she had married a child whose only talent was an air of engaging helplessness by which he got the protection of certain goodhearted people
