Alice McDermott Quotes

I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity... my children aren't buying it.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

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You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

John Barth

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I grew up in suburban New York, and my family wasn't much on traveling, so when I arrived at my alma mater, The Colorado College, I'd never been out West before, seen a 14,000-foot mountain, experienced snow in 70-degree weather, or come into contact with something called a 'dude.'

Jen Sincero

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By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of policing system; legal short-sellers have been instrumental in helping expose firms like Enron and WorldCom.

Matt Taibbi

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Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

Stefon Diggs

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I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

Tom Jenkinson

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Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

Rob Gronkowski

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Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on our children and grandchildren, I think that requires a pretty serious discussion, robust debate.

Ron Johnson

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I wanted to show people I'm like a modern Romeo. I'm romantic, but I can also be seductive. I can be cool and charismatic, swagger-type.

Romeo Santos

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I couldn't continue to live in a bubble and hope to be an empathic actor. It doesn't work.

Cole Sprouse

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I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Sheryl Lee

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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

Sean Hannity

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America has got the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism because the federal government is tampering in all kinds of stuff it has no business tampering in.

Todd Akin

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