Alastair Reynolds Quotes
There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
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I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I can say with confidence there has never been a man or a woman - not me, not Bill, nobody - more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence.
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Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
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It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
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I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.
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I really feel that my fans have given me a lot of confidence.
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A new poll shows that Americans now believe that Bill Clinton is more honest than President Bush. … At least when Clinton screwed the nation, he did it one person at a time.
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There are two different forms of storytelling: Novels tend to come from the inside of a character, and movies tend to look at them from the outside in relation to others in their world.
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I have lots of hopes for black actors in general, whether they be on TV or on stage or in movies, and that is that we move beyond the tokenism of what it means to be black in a particular set of circumstances.
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There was something about the cocksure confidence of that statement that gave Auger goose pimples. It was like an invitation to fate.
