Patricia Ryan famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.
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Trust your imagination. There is always something in the box.
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When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.
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If something is not to your liking, change your liking.
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When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
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English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?
-- Patricia Ryan
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
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I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.
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I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
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I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.
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