Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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I went to Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Massachusetts and Emerson College in Boston.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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Life is too short not to have pasta, steak, and butter.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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Of the powers conferred upon the General Government by the Constitution of the United States much the most important are those given to the legislative body.
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My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
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Iam seges est ubi Troia fuit.
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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I don't miss it at all. I'm glad I'm out.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
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I like it, but I think second base is too boring.
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To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
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Stock exchanges say that more than half of all trades are now executed by just a handful of high-frequency traders, who use rapid-fire computers to essentially force slower investors to give up profits, then disappear before anyone knows what happened.
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What made me empathic was my depressions.
