Gabrielle Giffords Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
God bless nannies.
Laura Dern -
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
Iris Apfel -
My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
Naveen Jain
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
A. E. van Vogt -
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
Malala Yousafzai -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco -
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
Fat Joe -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
Kate Grenville -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
Dana Schutz -
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I worry about censorship in many parts of the world.
Jimmy Wales -
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
Ian MacKaye -
Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
Bill Kristol -
Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.
Chet Baker -
Music has always been really important to me.
Gabrielle Giffords