Livy Quotes
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Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
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Yes, I love playing Mom.
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Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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Everybody wants to be great at something.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion infrastructure program - and not explode the deficit and national debt?
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I like to play by my own rules.
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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Corsets are always hard to wear.
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I did not want to provide a blueprint or roadmap for the terrorists, saying 'Here are our new security procedures'.
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In my first 100 days, I'll work with both parties to make the biggest investment in good-paying jobs in decades. We'll also raise the minimum wage - a big deal for the nearly two-thirds of minimum-wageworkers who are women. And we'll give women the tools they need to fight for equal pay. This isn't just a "women's issue"т - it's an issue every American should care about, no matter their gender.
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Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.
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Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
