Alia Shawkat (Alia Martine Shawkat) Quotes
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Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020.
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.
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As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
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ObamaCare is working. I talk to a lot of CEOs of hospitals. It is working.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.
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I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done.
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I think Bill Finn's one of the geniuses of theatre, and James Lapine's one of the diamonds of my generation. The two together are a joy!
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You always want your films to go as far as they can.
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Mostly I sat down and said, 'I'm not going to write a boring story.' And that actually, surprisingly, solves most of your problems.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
