Gabrielle Zevin Quotes
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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I'm in a constant state of gratitude.
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It was never about winning medals or being famous.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.
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It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
