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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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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I'm an analytics girl.
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I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.
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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.
