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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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will.
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
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Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
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And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
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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.
