Ally Condie Quotes
In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.
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My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
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I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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Your fortune is not something to find but to unfold.
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I believe that 'advocacy journalism' is not an oxymoron. If that means that I'm going to disrupt the cable, partisan fracas of obsession over what this means from left and right, then so be it. I will be disruptive of it.
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Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
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Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?
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In my own life, I'm pretty good at choosing between good and bad. It's the choices between good and good I find the most difficult to make.
