Alice James Quotes
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.
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I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
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I had an entrepreneurial spirit and started branching out from there.
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'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.
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Art gives me the freedom I don’t have when I make music. In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
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Snapchat's ramp reminded us of another mobile app Benchmark had the good fortune to back at an early stage: Instagram.
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What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.
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Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
