Ali Krieger Quotes
When we're traveling for games, I always go down and have breakfast with the team - that's a must.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.
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When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.
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I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowered forces less receptive to America's wishes and will than the despots and dictators deposed with our approval.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.
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I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.
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I was an outsider. I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed. While I looked for validation from my fellow contemporaries, I instead found jealousy and envy. I did not find team spirit. This led to dissatisfaction, an unease.
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To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
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The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.
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When we're traveling for games, I always go down and have breakfast with the team - that's a must.
