James A. Michener Quotes
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
Carlene Carter -
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini -
I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
Banks -
Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
Namie Amuro -
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
Salman Khurshid
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman -
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
Sadie Frost -
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
Abagail Johnson -
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Gavin Newsom -
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tamora Pierce -
Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
Rabih Alameddine -
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.
Eric Cantona -
In an increasingly competitive technology world, VCs must work more and more closely with portfolio companies to develop superior technology, talent, and operations.
Joe Lonsdale -
Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Gabrielle Roth -
I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.
Sue Grafton -
I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
James A. Michener