China Mieville Quotes
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
Ban Ki-moon
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Sally Ride
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
Tarsem Singh
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While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.
Dan Hill
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
Ira Glass
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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
Karen Armstrong
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
J. J. Abrams
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Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
Usain Bolt
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
M. J. Rose
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I have no one style.
Oscar Peterson
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I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.
Olivia Wilde
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The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.
Gary Gygax
