Karina Longworth Quotes
Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.
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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
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Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.
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The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.
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Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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All we have to do is find something we love doing each day, surround ourselves with like-minded people, and put all of our effort into that one thing at all times.
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Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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It is particularly pleasing to see how purely basic research, originally aimed at testing the genetic identity of different cell types in the body, has turned out to have clear human health prospects.
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Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.
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There are millions of eligible students who are not getting services. We have got to correct that. At its face value, it's wrong.
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The issue of corruption in the humanitarian system is not an issue which is fundamentally different from dangers of corruption in other areas. One of the best ways to strengthen accountability is to engage in principled and law-based humanitarian action.
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If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse.
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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.
