Ally Walker Quotes
Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Do you have to have a reason for loving?
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There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
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I like playing. Guitar... on a loud rock stage... with colored lights. Everything sounds better with colored lights!
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
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Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.
