Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
Edgar Ramirez -
Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
Ovid -
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch -
I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Barry Pepper -
I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
J. Anthony Lukas -
I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
Dana Torres -
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
E. W. Howe -
I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
Felicity Jones -
Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
Zhang Zhidong
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
Orhan Pamuk -
I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
Larry King -
People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
Abbe Pierre -
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
Zadie Smith -
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater -
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
Nancy Horan
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
Barbara Kruger -
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
Publilius Syrus -
I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
Rachel Kushner -
I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'
Kris Holden-Ried -
I'm a huge Aerosmith fan.
Kenny Chesney -
I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.
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