Philomena Kwao Quotes
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
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We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.
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If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
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On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If you shrunk yourself down and stood inside the diamond, you'd see nothing but carbon in a perfect pattern in every direction.
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If a brand wants a specific girl, they want a specific girl, wherever you are.
