Mary Archer Quotes
It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Mary Archer
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
Eavan Boland
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
Victor Hugo
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
Tamora Pierce
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
Malcolm Gets
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
Zinedine Zidane
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
Dana Carvey
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
Gay Talese
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Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Bill de Blasio
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No masterpieces in huge frames to worship, … and yet there are the days when every street corner rounds itself into a sunlit surprise, a painting or a phrase, canoes drawn up by the market, the harbour’s blue, the barracks. So much to do still, all of it praise.
Derek Walcott
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Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.
Wayne Dyer
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
Dana Fox
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Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?' …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
Neil Postman
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It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
Mary Archer
