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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My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
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That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
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The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.
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So these are the kind of things that now when people are trying to move towards multiracial congregations that they're stressing. They're talking about these scriptures that say we ought to come together, and that at Pentecost, when that the Holy Spirit is said to have come upon the first Christians, they were given the ability to speak in different languages, and so that no matter who the people were, they could all worship together.
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My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.
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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.
