Ann Macbeth Quotes
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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No one can look bad when you've been lit for six hours.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
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I like to do all kinds of films.
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My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education - from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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You ain't gonna sell two copies if you press a double album.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
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My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
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Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.
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From the time you were signed at MGM you just felt you were in God's hands.
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I'm a country boy, and we're the product of our upbringing. As a boy, I was told that men don't cry.
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KING: Franklin Graham called Islam a very wicked and evil religion. More recently, he said that Muslim leaders haven't done enough to show their sorrow over 9/11. Do you agree with that?
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Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
