Freya Stark Quotes
The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
Freya Stark
Quotes to Explore
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It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
Lady Gregory
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
Barney Frank
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
Ada Yonath
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
C. L. R. James
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
Kate Burton
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
Larry Wilmore
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
Katey Sagal
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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
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I only had the pleasure of working with Warren in person once. He was total pro and a dream vocalist. He sang a song of mine on Jay Graydon's last solo record, entitled “You’re Not Alone”, and it is one of my all time favorite vocal performances. My wife, Janey Clewer, also recorded with Warren three or four times out at David Foster’s studio. She also thinks that Warren was a gentleman and a true musical genius. We will never forget him. The sweetest man you could hope to meet. Truly a genius, Warren will be remembered fondly.
Bruce Gaitsch
Chicago
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To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.
Alistair Cooke
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I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.
Sabrina Ward Harrison
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Someone was always trying to put down my individuality and personality, making me sing Mozart arias that were nothing to do with me.
Kristine Opolais
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The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
Freya Stark
