Alex Pareene Quotes

Because TED is for, and by, unbelievably rich people, they tiptoe around questions of the justness of a society that rewards TED attendees so much for what usually amounts to a series of lucky breaks.

Alex Pareene

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Ade Palicki is a wonderful actress, so it was fun to work with her.

Jesse Plemons

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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.

John C. Hawkes

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I love the house we're in, but at the same time, I'm hooked on the romance of house-hunting.

Sophie Hannah

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Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.

Tony Greig

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Good managers have a bias for action.

Tom Peters

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You can easily take photographs at a wedding - no one would question it. But funerals are different.

Martin Parr

WeddingYouQuestionTakeDifferent

I live on my own, happily, and I've never wanted children, but it did occur to me one day that there's part of me in 'Torak' - he's a loner, I'm a loner - as there's part of me in 'Renn,' who's quite waspish. I think, in some senses, 'Torak' is the son I never had.

Michelle Paver

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What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Douglas Wilson

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I've always liked Mexican food.

Clive Cussler

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I hated being scared when I was little. Aliens really scared me.

Claire Coffee

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I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything.

Anouska Hempel

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

William Shakespeare

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