Alexandra Wentworth Quotes
I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
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Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
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I'll admit, sometimes I've paid the bills with acting. You know the phrase, 'It's one for the money, two for the showreel.' I don't want that as a director. I don't want to compromise myself. There's a big old wide world out there. I want to explore it.
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There is an opportunity to recreate the financial world as we know it in the parallel universe that is the blockchain. We are writing rules for this whole new universe.
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It's about not accepting every little challange thrown at you. Sometimes you hold back and when it's needed you go for it.
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No coffee shops or fog machines required [for church].
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...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
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I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.
