Alison Tyler Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.
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I'm supremely grateful and seriously pleased that readers enjoy my words.
