Alice Ripley Quotes
My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.
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From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.
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My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.
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I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
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A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
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My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
