Alan Ball Quotes

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

Alan Ball

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If you don't go over the top you can't see what's on the other side.

Jim Steinman

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I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

Jessica White

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Empathy is the bridge to understand those who you may be lucky to one day lead, and it is - in my opinion - the most under-appreciated human skill in business.

Andy Dunn

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Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

Jeffrey Kluger

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The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Michael Hastings

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I would say my first golf memory was asking who Arnold Palmer was when he was always on the Pennzoil commercials. When I was a little kid I watched a lot of sports, but I didn't watch a lot of golf, and this guy was always on a tractor.

Mike Greenberg

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I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

Demetri Martin

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Like Theresa May, I regularly find myself infuriated by the rantings of Anjem Choudary and other hate preachers.

Deeyah Khan

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It's almost an out of body experience to see things that First Officer Jeff Skiles and I said in the cockpit together, played by actors.

Chesley Sullenberger

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If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

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To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Pierre Salinger

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Putin has mobilized and gathered the desires of millions upon millions of people who have been lied to, cheated, who lost out in the new order of things - and in each of these people is a bit of Putin. They have come together to make the image we know as Putin. Putin himself is just the tip of an iceberg.

Svetlana Alexievich

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