Ali Krieger Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love shouldn't play by the rules. It's all about chemistry.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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I'm interested in designing for posterity.
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The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.
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I happen to consider myself a Highlander even before a Scot; I am proud to be British yet feel comfortable as a European citizen.
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We find our happiness to the extent to which we use our minds to bless the world, for that is the natural use of the mind. It is the reason we were born.
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The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.
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Every tournament's different.
