Ann McKee Quotes
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I think the hedge-fund industry has taken a reputational turn for the worse, this dog-eat-dog stuff. I'm not just talking about Herbalife or J. C. Penney, but in other situations where the media really focuses on who's long and who's short. I don't think it's a good thing for the industry.
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You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
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We always did everything ourselves.
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I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.
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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
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Nothing good happens without a penalty.
