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average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. Alan Guth
average fading saws
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
average excellence refuse
Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer
average lasts halls
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' Chip Kelly
average people sides
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. David Cross
average sound band
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. Buddy Rich
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh
beijing earthquake followed global hard heels olympic proved riots terms tibet torch tumultuous until year
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. Martin Jacques
beijing
What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it. Robin Munro
beijing chinese exercise fact government hollywood mtv olympics power soft
The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is, in fact, that probably Hollywood and MTV and McDonalds have done more for American soft power around the world than any specifically government activity. Shashi Tharoor
beijing cover flame games hope olympic people relay sacred taiwan torch
Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.
beijing congress costs employers idly policy send signal sit strong trade
send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.
beijing chinese common cuisines dishes food great kinds originally originated serve street
They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls. Nicole Mones
beijing blue boring city hometown industry
My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines. Liu Wen
beijing case court decided drop prosecutor
The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.
beijing billion investing olympics pounds quarter
We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Richard Caborn
buying internet brands
The Internet is the ultimate in brand-centered buying. Al Ries
buy estimate good land next
We want to try to buy the land next year. I want to see if that's a good estimate on our part.
buying swimsuits difficult
Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder. Chloe Sevigny
buying instant itunes
I like buying iTunes. It's instant. Caitlin Rose
buy detection education shares simply stocks united
I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
buying everybody funds great money pouring safe
Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
buys car focus likely move pickup stay
The person who buys a Focus is more likely to stay with us to move into a mid-size car or SUV or pickup trucks,
buys land process talking whoever
The permitting process is so complicated here in Massachusetts. Realistically, whoever buys Frank's land, you're still talking 1 1/2 to 2 years.
buy front opposed people places rid stuff yard
The people would go out and buy stuff from other places and be re-selling it on their front yard as opposed to getting rid of all their own junk.
capital distance hockey people team win
We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.
capitalize community unique
We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.
capital certainly fund large looked managers million open plenty preferred therefore worth yale
There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.
capitalize found inside jackson open plays run strength tory
We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.
capitalize whenever
Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.
capital hard misery people sorry television watching
Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M. Matt Ridley
capitalize good lose offense run steal
When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team. Scott Parker
capital concrete confidence corporate data economic move rise rising spending
We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.
capitalize complete jump mistakes periods team three
We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all. Charles Dickens
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
entering lives personal potential
The potential for their personal lives entering in their professional lives is dynamic. David Boreanaz
entering splinters becoming
Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group. Dennis Miller
entering people
We're going to see a lot more young people entering entrepreneurial ventures. Louis Armstrong
entering gaining life mainstream wine
We're gaining traction in the U.S. market. Wine is entering the mainstream of American life for the first time.
entering felt imagine risked succeeded
When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder. Isabella Rossellini
entering granted love magazines recognize taken trade vastness worlds
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better recognize the vastness of the social universe - for there are so, so many worlds that are not your own. Rick Perlstein
entering fear left promise seem short therefore
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
entering sees time trying
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing. Pierre Bonnard
entering period stock
We're entering a seasonal period now, pre-Thanksgiving, pre-December holidays, where we often see a stock advance,
expand looking russia
We are looking to expand in Russia but it will probably be through greenfield expansion. Alan Clark
expand happen
We'd like to expand our services, but that will happen gradually,
expand fill store
When we fill this wall, we'll expand to other walls. We'll do the whole store if we have to.
expand hoping introduce kids league
We're hoping to expand the league and get more kids involved, and introduce them to racing.
expanding growing hoping
We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.
expand further hoping
Ultimately, we're hoping to expand this further (beyond Boston). Lawrence Summers
expand experience looked pulled realize regions simpler time turns wilder wonderful
If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before. Richard P. Feynman
expand found mountain project scope step succession traveler
Like a traveler encountering a succession of mountain ranges we found the scope of our project seeming to expand with every step we took.
expand humans multiple surface visit
As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars.
four last match proved ways won
We've won one game. We won four last year. We've got a ways to go before we match last year. We haven't proved anything. J. Taylor
four pages scripts
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it. David S. Goyer
four guards looking plays using
UNLV plays four guards. So using four guards was something we were looking at doing anyway.
four major played players proud
We are proud to have four players who played a major part in Wednesday's success.
four great last learn practicing
We are practicing with Hartland and they will get us prepared. They've been there the last four years and we should learn from them. They are a great program. B. F. Skinner
fourth half later left moved second third
We usually just have two forwards up top. But later in the second half I moved up a third one, and with about 1:45 left I moved in a fourth one. Kyle Smith
four larger whim
We started this on a whim four years ago. We don't want to make it any larger than it is. It really is a lot of fun.
fourth offensive options struggled third
We struggled to find another offensive weapon. Their third and fourth options made shots, and we're not that deep.
four large plays shows
We are a fluid, but large group. We do a lot of plays and four shows a years.
government people should
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. Alan Moore
government giving enemy
In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government. Alan Green
government favors corruption
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
government purpose regulators
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution. Al Sharpton
government america united-states
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
government opportunity work
We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.
ideals
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. Charles Henry Parkhurst
ideal
I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
ideally information word
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print. Erin McKean
ideal promoting totally unhealthy
I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that. Cameron Russell
ideal longer loses simply virginity
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; it's an event. Tom Stoppard
ideal insist
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world.
idealism
With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion. Timothy Noah
ideals concessions
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. Coco Chanel
ideal man manhood shows
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be Thomas Carlyle
increase gods-will ifs
If [something] is of God, your dependence upon God will increase.
increase oil persistent prices worrying
The persistent increase in oil prices is worrying me again. Jeremy Siegel
increased lower medication people period risk start starting taking
The period right after people start taking antidepressant medication is not a period of increased risk. In fact, risk after starting medication is lower than before.
increases jobs monetary policy unless until
Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.
increase interest seen terms tremendous
We have seen a tremendous increase in terms of the interest we are getting here.
increase military nor
We have no intention, nor the ability, to increase our military armaments substantially.
increase interest whether
Whether this will increase interest has yet to be seen.
increases markets seeing seem
What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,
increase offering program
What we're offering is a three?year program to increase the funding.
living realized vibrant
I'd be like, 'You're a young, vibrant woman. Where are you?' I realized that I had been living in denial. Lorraine Bracco
living love peace time
I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less. Michael Franti
living-right television film
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film. David Duchovny
living-my-life clock touring
In general, I usually don't really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don't really ask anyone else to. It's not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional. Axl Rose
living national reducing security survive throughout
Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing liberties, ... we ask: We not only want to survive, but survive living under what conditions?
living specific
When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was living in L.A. at the time. Andrea Roth
living true wait
I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me. Caitlyn Jenner
living people principal rooms york
The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them, Peter Russell
living separated
What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did. Christy Turlington
mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean atheism knaves
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
mean men dresses
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
middle outside prevent shots struggled
We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.
middle sentences
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. Kurt Vonnegut
middle-east dove making-peace
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East. Madeleine Albright
middle principal school work
When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.
middle nowhere rural singing songs whether
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town. Rodney Atkins
middle ends get-involved
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. Diane Sawyer
middle knows capable
Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it. Anthony Rapp
middle-east east middle
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. Bashar al-Assad
middle points treat
We treat it no differently than a rainout in the middle of the season. We never make up a points race.
million mind run
When you take away the phone and e-mail and you don't have a million things to run around to, it allows your mind the space to think more expansively about the things that matter. Ewan McGregor
million today worth
What $1 million is worth today is not the same as it will be worth in 2030.
million perry rick win word
We're going to have to use the word million in the plural, but with that being said, we're not going to have to outspend Rick Perry to win this thing. Jason Stanford
millions
I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records. Katy Perry
million returned three troops vietnam
Three years into American involvement in Vietnam they were up to 500,000 troops in-country and there probably were already a million who had returned home.
million next project received three
Three years ago we received 7 million applications. This year, we project 13 million applications. Next year, 15 million.
million movies offered
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet. James Frecheville
millions
Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,
million people promise represent senate texans truth
And the people I have been accountable to every single day in the Senate are the 27 million Texans who I represent and I made a promise to them that I make to you today, which is, if I am elected, every single day I will do two things: tell the truth, and do what I said I would do. Ted Cruz
months dislocation
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. Bob Mould
months strange provocative
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. David Rockefeller
months six
We were blazing. Six months after we opened, 9/11 happened. Bruce Smith
months honest losing
Losing gets old. It's just been a heck of a month, to be honest with you. Alan Trammell
months takes weeks whether
Whether it takes two months or two weeks whatever,
months lips three
I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before. Barbra Streisand
months lasts cold
If I get a cold, it lasts for a month. Delta Goodrem
month start
We know how big this month is for us. This just isn't the way to start it off. Kirk Hinrich
months glee projects
There was this project I really wanted before 'Glee' and I didn't get cast - I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn't get it. But then a month later I got cast on 'Glee,' and I felt like it was meant to happen. Dianna Agron
opened school six
When we first opened we had only six school buses. Now we have 24.
opened vehicle
When I got there, he opened the back of his vehicle and it was just packed,
opened school secondary taught
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London. Nigel Hamilton
opened passing ripped standing strangest suddenly
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world. Ben Okri
opened
Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes. Djimon Hounsou
opened peel underneath
I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it. Damien Rice
opened
When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.
opened selling third week
We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.
opened
We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
policies run tories
We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them. Johann Lamont
policies
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation. Bobby Seale
policies procedures search violated whether
We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.
policies situation
We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.
policies
In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. Steve Stockman
policies respect success
What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration, Jacques Chirac
policies since threat
I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser. Michael McCaul
policies
It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
policies regular
We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.
roughly
Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.