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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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.
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You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.
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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.
