Kiersten White Quotes
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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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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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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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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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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All they have to do is spend a little bit of money and change the mold (of the ball) and let the ball go back 30 yards. There are no such things as par-5s now really in professional golf, unless they move the tees back.
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But, in 1968, I was the defense minister implementing a political decision, convinced that there were grounds for that on the basis of the information available to us then.
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It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
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I don’t think there’s any right or wrong with music but I do believe that the more varied styles you listen to and absorb, the more you can apply these styles to your own music and ultimately have a more interesting and varied style of your own.
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Knowing where I came from didn't change who I was.
