Haile Selassie Quotes
The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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I think I can change the game.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
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Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987
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But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
