Quotes about america
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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. Harry Mathews
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Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
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In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language. Harry Markowitz
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That's when it hit me. The site is more important than me. Harry Knowles
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There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world. Hasso Plattner
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There are a lot of things that have to be considered in National. The military aspect of it is only one of them. I'm confident that President Bush will have all of those things laid out for him before he makes the decision. Hugh Shelton
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Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it's great that he's coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.
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Of course, you always have to be concerned about hijacking. But with the measures that are in place right now, I'd say that probably the airways are as safe as they've been in a good number of years.
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I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
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The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
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When you start out, you're not really aware. I didn't have a sense of photographic history. Herb Ritts
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That's why I felt so at home when I went to Africa. It didn't matter that I was halfway around the world in a foreign country, because all those elements are universal. And I think that's one thing about my work: It's universal.
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He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music. Herb Alpert
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We finally got our big break when Ed Sullivan put us on his show.
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This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music.
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I'm sure I'll go back again and record in the digital process.
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I practice every day. I've been doing it since I was eight.
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Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
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The landscapes were in my arms as I did it. Helen Frankenthaler
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Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. Hendrik Poinar
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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When you sit down now and really listen, it doesn't give off the same feel as it did back when Run DMC and those guys were rhymin'. Missy Elliot
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Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
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Whether it be in the trade union movement or the captains of industry, the vision that we have for America ought to be for a better America.
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Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround. Nick Turse
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We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma. It's actually scared me quite a bit.
american-businessman
We are a company that promotes 100% within the company. James Sinegal