Anthony Lewis Quotes
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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High-stakes lying is out of control. And it's costing us big bucks in one way or another. It's not simply a matter of quantifying losses in dollars. It's costing us emotionally and psychologically as well.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries. I was really drawn to it.
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There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside.
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
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I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.
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I've got to pick my fights at the right time.
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Every normal woman that is a mother will do everything for your baby to make sure he is happy. Every mother understands that the baby is only happy being with his or her mother.
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I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long.
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Je ne dois qu'à moi seul toute ma renommée.
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Request Magazine: And now we're back to suicide. Some months have passed now since Kurt Cobain killed himself. Judging from his suicide note, it seems as if he thought there was something that was being demanded of him by the music industry or fans or someone, that he either couldn't or didn't want to deliver.
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I haven't been a gay activist. I haven't protested for gay rights or none of that, but one thing I can say is that a lot of the designers I wear are gay and I like their clothes.
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Creativity is very much like literacy. We take it for granted that nearly everybody can learn to read and write. If a person can't read or write, you don't assume that this person is incapable of it, just that he or she hasn't learned how to do it. The same is true of creativity.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way.
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Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.
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We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
