Binyavanga Wainaina Quotes
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Art lies by its own artifice.
Ovid
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Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi
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Well, when The Black Keys make a record, I never really feel limited. To me, it seems the possibilities are always endless. The big difference has been playing live and being able to recreate every little part of the record.
Dan Auerbach
The Black Keys
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
Jack Kemp
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
Jack Kemp
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
Kate Winslet
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
C. Everett Koop
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Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
Paris Hilton
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I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.
Florence Henderson
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.
Zoe Foster Blake
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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The practice of declaring people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order. It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the treatment or handling of an SP.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
Maimonides
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If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Look, it's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive. It's moving. It's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive, it's alive!
Garrett Fort
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Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper
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It's extraordinary what that song has been used for - I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.
Peter Gabriel
Genesis
