Alice Munro Quotes
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.
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Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
