Alice Munro Quotes
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
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Global terror does not respect national boundaries.
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
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I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
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My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.
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De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.
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If there is some determinate succession of defined whole real numbers, among which there exists no greatest, on the basis of this second principle of generation a new number is obtained which is regarded as the limit of those numbers, i.e. is defined as the next greater number than all of them.
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You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
