Lisa Hannigan Quotes
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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I love the game of football. I've been playing since I was 6 years old, and now that I am retired and not really into it physically, it's all about the mental part of it now. It's just coaching and teaching the game.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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I knew, always, what I wanted to be. Even before I had my first computer, I wanted to be a computer scientist.
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I'm happy to be on a winning team. My individual success, that lasts for a short period of time. The success of being a part of the South, of Atlanta, which is now the hot bed of music, that's what's gonna last the longest. The fact that I contributed to planting our flag and moving music to my city, that's what I'm most proud of.
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Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
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Because Republicans believe that the federal government is limited in its function-some have concluded that Republicans are somehow inherently insensitive to minority rights. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.
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I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance EMA, trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.
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I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
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When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the conscious mind are not enough by themselves to handle the problem. It is like a breaker switch in your brain is simply flipped. Anybody who has had this kind of a problem knows that it doesn't matter how intelligent you are. Sigmund Freud said, "Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis."
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There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.
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I don't know what to do with myself when it's sunny!
