David Means Quotes
My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
David Means
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Ouida
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My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.
Park Geun-hye
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You like to be independent, but you will need to learn to ask for help. It doesn't make you weak.
Taya Kyle
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His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.
Manmohan Singh
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Beard's secret is always to be slightly on the edge but to pull back from disaster at the last minute.
Mary Beard
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I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.
Tyra Banks
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Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
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People tend to think of gentrification in terms of race because it's presented that way, and I think it's presented that way because in poor cities that's what's really going on. Beyond that, I think it's presented that way as a way for the people who are really pushing it to make it just a black problem, so people don't care.
Killer Mike
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Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
Morarji Desai
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If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.
David Means