Alice Ripley Quotes
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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I take pride in taking care of all the housework so that my wife, who works as a designer for Martha Stewart, won't need to sacrifice any of her leisure time when she gets home.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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Mexico is where I fell in love for the first time; it's where my family lives... so however much I travel, I inevitably return there.
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I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.
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My neighbor's not even listening to me. He's all excited about some garden hose he bought at Brookstone. He's convinced it was designed by NASA. "Actually, it's got two nozzles, one for the hot and one for the..." Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this? That's all I really care about you and your little garden hose.
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If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.
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If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?
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Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.
