Manika Quotes
I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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My real passions are horses and playing polo. I care a lot about that and staying fit and in shape.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
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Our most polluted neighborhoods are disproportionately home to Latinos, African Americans, and other communities of color.
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I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?
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The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
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I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.
