Frances Beinecke Quotes
At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life, man.
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Of course I get hurt.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!
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At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
