Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes
Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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Working 24 hours a day isn't enough anymore. You have to be willing to sacrifice everything to be successful, including your personal life, your family life, maybe more. If people think it's any less, they're wrong, and they will fail.
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To invest in countries that are pursuing policies that are harmful to global stability.
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I know I've got to just keep throwing the ball. That's what I do best.
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It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm.
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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.
