Christina Stead Quotes
She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I am basically a private person.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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It is not in our interest to sign economic policy agreements with the IMF, as that unnecessarily limits the room to manoeuvre of... the Hungarian government, Hungarian parliament and lawmakers.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.
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I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
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There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.
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She soon reached a point when she could not sit at the table with him and listen to his misbegotten notions and morality with its mistaken examples.
