Hannah Gadsby Quotes
This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.
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Women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer can learn a tremendous amount from women who have already been treated.
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I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world's payment systems for the first time.That's a big deal.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
