Patricia Riggen Quotes
Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
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We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.
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Take heed of loving me.
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Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
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All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
