Alice Dreger Quotes
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
Quotes to Explore
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I am not honest.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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'I'm no good, Teddy. Let's run away!''You're a very good boy. Your Mummy loves you.'Slowly, he shook his head. 'If she loved me, then why can't I talk to her?''You're being silly, David. Mummy's lonely. That's why she had you.''She's got Daddy. I've got nobody 'cept you, and I'm lonely.'
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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I think I said 'All men are Jews except they don't know it.' I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.
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For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you.
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Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be.
