Alexandra Wentworth Quotes
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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Tom Foley was a statesman, and it was a privilege to serve under him when he was the Speaker of the House. He loved our country. He was a gentleman. I had the privilege of seeing him a couple days before he passed away.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I would argue that you're only going to get the conservatives, particularly a Republican House, to pass immigration reform if we, as conservatives, are reassured that the border is controlled and that we get to vote on whether the border is controlled.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.
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That is a terrifically intimate thing, you know? Letting a stranger light your cigarette. Leaning forward so he can hold a flame to your lips. Pausing to breathe in before you pull back again.
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You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
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I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
