Ann Bancroft Quotes
To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
Quotes to Explore
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
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My house borders horse farms, and I can look out my window and see the horses and the new colts. It's really peaceful.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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You can do a good job when you play it safe, but you can't do a spectacular job. You have to risk it and be in danger of looking like an absolute fool.
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What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.
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I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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The nothingness was a nakedness, a point,Beyond which fact could not progress as fact. Thereon the learning of the man conceived Once more night’s pale illuminations, goldBeneath, far underneath, the surface of His eye and audible in the mountain of His ear, the very material of his mind.
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To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.
