Alice B. Toklas Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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But I don't want nutrition. I want food!