Martha Gellhorn Quotes
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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Too pop for punk, too 'old school' for the New Wave, Mumps were a '70s era New York rock band, out of time.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.
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Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
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Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Podcasting is not really that different from streaming music, which we've done for quite a long time. Having a traditional podcast that people subscribe to - the hype is ahead of the quality. Podcasting is essentially a download, and you run into copyright issues. What you're left with currently is podcast talk radio.
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I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.
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God never fits His word to suit me; He fits me to suit His word.
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I feel very troubled in the head and heart.
