Ann McKee Quotes
They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It's just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They're different; there's no question. They're huge, they're fast, and they're all these wonderful things.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.
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Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.
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Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.
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I had a nice life. It had its challenges like anybody's life, I guess.
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An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.
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I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult to work out why - it's all the things you've put to one side during the day.
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They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It's just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They're different; there's no question. They're huge, they're fast, and they're all these wonderful things.
