Ally Condie Quotes
When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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It is my personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than acknowledge the political domination of another government, even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living.
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Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.
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If I'm singing something I don't like, it literally feels like stepping on nails.
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Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
