Aimee Bender Quotes

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

  

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• Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

  

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• This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

  

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

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• I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

  

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• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
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• You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.

  

  Dana Perino
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• I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

  

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• I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.

  

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• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

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• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  

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• To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

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• No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

  

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• I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.

  

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• When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

  

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• I've committed myself to perfecting the art of the straight man. I try really hard not to crack up.

  

  Andre Braugher
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• The first time I was cooking for my wife, Stephanie, way before she was my wife, I actually put three chickens on the rotisserie and I closed the grill, which is really a bad idea. But I just wasn't thinking very straight that day. And I looked outside and I saw, like, smoke and flames.

  

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• Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.

  

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• As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

  

  Aimee Bender
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