Daniel Handler Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
Basmah bint Saud -
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
Sacha Baron Cohen -
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp -
We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
Parker Harris -
Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
Tariq Ramadan -
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
Larry Wilmore -
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
Weili Dai -
President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.
Yousef Munayyer -
I'm a travel enthusiast.
Iggy Pop -
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl Sagan -
Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.
Ban Ki-moon
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Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.
Edie Falco -
It was a mighty while ago.
Ben Jonson -
Puns are the highest form of literature.
Alfred Hitchcock -
And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
Lorenz Hart -
The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation.
Edward Hirsch -
Good Friday was the worst Friday until Sunday.
Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North
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It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.
Kelley O'Hara -
It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
Dionne Warwick -
Friday: Baudelaires, please come with me.Olaf: What about me?Friday: Go away.
Daniel Handler