Alice Munro Quotes

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 10, 1931

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I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Jimmy Carter

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It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.

Joanna Coles

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You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.

Ann Cotton

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Sociological critics are waste makers.

Andy Warhol

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To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Stephen Pagliuca

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Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Trey Parker

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I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens.

Trixie Mattel

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I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.

Robbie Lawler

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Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Donna Leon

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I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.

Dean Karnazes

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This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.

Chrystia Freeland

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