Ally Carter Quotes
But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
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Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
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The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
