Alexandra Kerry Quotes
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.
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I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate.
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Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
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Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
