Bree Despain Quotes
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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We all owe America. It's not the other way around.
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What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?
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Maybe to try to understand not just that we are living in a certain building or in a certain location, but to become aware that we are living on a planet that is going at enormous speed through the universe.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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I think life is cotton candy on a rainy day. For those who grew up with cotton candy the old-fashioned way, it is very delicate. Pre-made cotton candy that has preservatives is not nearly as good or true. True cotton candy is sugar, color, and air and it melts very quickly. That was the metaphor - it can't be preserved, it can't be put aside, it can't be banked. It has to be experienced, like life.
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Comcast High-Speed Internet exceeded $1 billion in revenue this quarter and at 20 percent penetration, we believe this business has significant growth potential,
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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And when Bëor lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
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And sex is definitely part of college life.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
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You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.
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We are required to forgive everyone.
