James Salter Quotes
The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.
James Salter
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Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.
Gabrielle Union
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
Francia Raisa
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Oliver Cromwell
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
Oliver Tambo
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Banksy
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
Earl Campbell
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Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
Edgar Ramirez
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
Pardis Sabeti
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
Tom Stoppard
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Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
Bruce Dickinson
Iron Maiden
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Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Bela Lugosi
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
Hasso Plattner
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The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.
James Salter
