Anna Lindh Quotes
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.
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The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring - as Sappho says, 'More real than real, more gold than gold.'
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Before babies, I worked very hard to make sure I understood my surroundings and figured out where I fit in the world, whether it was at work or in a social situation.
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In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.
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This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
