Jan Karon Quotes
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.
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Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
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I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
