Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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I think governments can't do much.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.
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I've got a great place, it's a country house.
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I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?
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I don't take anything for granted with nationals. I can't count out anyone or know what anyone is doing. I have to prepare the best I can, that's all I can control. I don't consider myself to have anything on a platter.
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I just never count on anything. You can't.
