Alexandra Ripley Quotes
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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If I really felt like I was the world's greatest athlete, I'd get 10 great events. But I know that's pretty much not possible. That's the toughness of the decathlon.
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
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There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
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Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.
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One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little.
