Alice McDermott Quotes
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'Alice McDermott
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
Kate Dickie -
I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
Kalpana Chawla -
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
Ian Frazier -
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
Carlene Carter -
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei -
We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
Maggie Hassan
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
Karl Popper -
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
Warren Farrell -
As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
Calvin Coolidge -
I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
Aaron Levie
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
Fat Joe -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky -
I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
Daniel Bruhl -
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
Victoria Pendleton
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Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
Edward Ball -
No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
Laila Lalami -
I started with things that I was troubled by or confused by or interested in, and then I wrote stories to try to puzzle my way through it. But the question is not how to represent war, because it's an abstract thing that's felt differently for all the characters.
Phil Klay -
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.
Edith Schaeffer -
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.
Ban Ki-moon -
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
Alice McDermott