Elin Hilderbrand Quotes
Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin Hilderbrand
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
Tamsin Greig
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Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.
Viggo Mortensen
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Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.
Tariq Ali
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
Natalia Kills
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
Eddie Huang
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
Harriet Harman
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Octavia E. Butler
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
D. B. Weiss
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
Aaron Sanchez
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I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
Joanne Rowling
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It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?
Laura Miller
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
Zaha Hadid
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Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.
Philip Glass
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In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.
Mark Skousen
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If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
Danny Boyle
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Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.
Elin Hilderbrand
