Ann Romney Quotes
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I can always go back to education.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
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The love of God toward you is like the Amazon River flowing down to water a single daisy.
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I just don't think of age and time in respect of years. I have too much experience of people in their seventies who are vigorous and useful and people who are thirty-five who are in lousy physical shape and can't think straight. I don't think age has that much to do with it.
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I would have been an Egyptologist if I had had the schooling.
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I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
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Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
