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'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.
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When somebody's face-to-face with you saying, 'I may not have been here had I not read your book,' how do you respond to that? The first several times I traveled, it was almost too much. I was totally grateful, but emotionally, it was really hard.
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A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
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The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.
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Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.
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Nothing good happens without a penalty.