Walter Wriston Quotes
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.
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In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.
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The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.
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The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.
