Alison Lurie Quotes
Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.
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I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.
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I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.
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I don't listen to the radio in the car, and I do that because I don't want to be influenced.
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Many Americans think of the rest of the world as a kind of Disneyland, a showplace for quaint fauna, flora and artifacts. They dress for travel in cheap, comfortable, childish clothes, as if they were going to the zoo and would not be seen by anyone except the animals.
