Alice McDermott Quotes
For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
Wale
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Jackie Mason
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
Jack Canfield
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
Samantha Power
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
Caitlin Moran
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
Jackie Cooper
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
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Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.
Max Baucus
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On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.
Jesmyn Ward
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When I found out more about the Maori culture, I fell in love with it, and with the people, too.
Jason Momoa
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I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar
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For immigrant generations especially, family is the first structure, or shelter, for a people who are in exile.
Alice McDermott
