Bill Buford Quotes
Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
Bill Buford
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
Nastia Liukin
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India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
Pamela Meyer
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Samuel Johnson
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
Veerappa Moily
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
Cara Delevingne
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
Hale Irwin
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
Nadia Comaneci
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
Rachel Nichols
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Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
Neil Sedaka
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Getting a gun should be easy for good people and impossible for bad people. The only trick is telling the difference.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
Aidan Chambers
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Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.
Plato
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There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.
Jennifer Egan
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Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
Bill Buford
