Sting Quotes
I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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Every drama requires a cast. The cast may be so huge, as in Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina,' that the author or editor provides a list of characters to keep them straight. Or it may be an intimate cast of two.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
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If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
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People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
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It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.
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People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
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I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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What happens with smaller businesses is that they give in to the misconception that their site is secure because the system administrator deployed standard security products - firewalls, intrusion detection systems, or stronger authentication devices such as time-based tokens or biometric smart cards. But those things can be exploited.
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I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
