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Anne Fortier Quotes

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.

Anne Fortier

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: danish

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Relationship Challenges Who Oxford

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.

Jerome Bruner

Work Laziness Leap Thinker Guessing

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Robert Gibbs

Progress Financial End Lost Crisis

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Matt Taibbi

Tea Party Nothing More Root Than

The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

Shimon Peres

History Believe Better Born Whatever

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary.

Luca Parmitano

Opportunity People Speak Down Earth

I'm not a gym rat. I've got a gym membership, but my schedule is so crazy I just can't keep it regular.

Lisa Murkowski

Crazy Gym Schedule Rat Membership

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Joseph Addison

Happiness Blessing Man Mind World

Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.

Jose Andres

Home Happy Parents Be Happy Chef

I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.

Brad Paisley

Creative Guitar Doing Enough Know

I'm Chief Executive Officer at Art of the Olympians Museum in Fort Myers, Florida, which was founded by my Mexico City teammate Al Oerter and his wife Cathy in 2005. It shows that Olympians can have another life; we have got art from more than 100 Olympians.

Bob Beamon

Life Art Wife City Museum Florida

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

Penelope Tree

Man Think Sixties Being Every Man

Slayer fans are unforgiving. Early on in the career, if something changes, it's accepted. But 30 years down the road, in my opinion, they would rather see us do a three-piece than even try to replace Jeff, in a sense.

Tom Araya

Opinion Road Early Career Down Try