Alice Ripley Quotes
Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
Quotes to Explore
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
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Writing teaches writing.
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Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).
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There's always been a piano around the house, and I've grown up around it. It's a massive part of my life and always has been.
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If you've got style, you'll show it, no matter the city.
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Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
