Talia Shire Quotes
I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Islam means peace.
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Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.
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My photo has nothing to do with the person I am, the dreams I have, the family I want to build, the family I'm from.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.
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I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
