Alexandra Robbins Quotes

Since 'The Overachievers' came out, I've been doing a lot of lectures and talking to kids across the country.

Alexandra Robbins

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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

John Burns

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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

John Dryden

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Drug company payments to doctors are a small part of a much larger strategy by Big Pharma to clean our pockets.

Robert Reich

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I certainly could've made a lot more money buying cheap ingredients, and people might not have been able to tell the difference. That was never a part of the calculus. It was not part of my DNA.

Steve Ells

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Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

Stacy Schiff

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Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.

Rosamund Pike

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Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Dorothea Dix

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I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

Claudette Colbert

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How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

Boris Becker

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I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Alice Lowe

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Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

Philip Kaufman

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I've done 44 portraits of Obama because he's the 44th president.

Peter Max

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