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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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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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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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.
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John Lennon made wonderful music, which people listen to as music. Nobody around the world is living their life according to the precepts of John Lennon.
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Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.
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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.
