Frances Beinecke Quotes
Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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How will we defend ourselves if the Patriot Act expires? Well, perhaps we could just rely on the Constitution and demonstrate exactly how traditional judicial warrants can gather all the info we need - and how bulk collection really hasn't worked.
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I love music.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.
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When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.
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I think I'm better than Mamet, I would say.
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Revenge is a powerful motivator.
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At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.
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Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
