Janet Flanner Quotes
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
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Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
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But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.
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Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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I feel no bond with South Africa, which is curious, since South Africa is where I was born.
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In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.
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Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
