Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I spend most of my time at concerts hoping for that one second that the artist looks at me, I look at the artist, and that's when I get to say, 'Thank you.'
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I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.
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Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
