Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
Daniel Boone
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
Karin Slaughter
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I'm an honest, open father.
T.I.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
Orison Swett Marden
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
Jack Nicklaus
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
Rain
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
Laura Mennell
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
Adam Beach
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
Najib Mikati
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
Patrick Chan
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
Zooey Deschanel
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One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.
Barack Obama
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I'm sorry, but in my generation and where I came from, only sailors got tattoos. Not ladies.
Andie MacDowell
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
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Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
