Lydia M. Child Quotes
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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When I first came into the league, I followed my parents for everything. Now, I'm really doing stuff on my own.
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Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.
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I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.
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Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
