Alice Duer Miller Quotes
Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.
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Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.
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I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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We love Popsicle in our house. Nick could probably down a whole box in one sitting; he's obsessed with the sugar free box, and I'm just obsessed with the classic.
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Markets go up. Markets go down. We always make money.... Get used to it.
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Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
