Christina Stead Quotes
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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I have many weaknesses, but I have one strength. When I do something, I do it 300 percent. I'm not a middle man.
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On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
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Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.
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Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
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Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
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...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, 'Which would you rather be,-a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?'
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God, what we women have to put up with; and I’m not even allowed to complain.
