Alice Ripley Quotes
Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
Quotes to Explore
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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John D. Rockefeller wanted to dominate oil, but Microsoft wants it all, you name it: cable, media, banking, car dealerships.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.
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The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.
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There is nothing wrong with a woman encouraging a man's advances, as long as they are in cash.
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I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.
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Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
