Jessamyn West Quotes
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
Gary Lineker
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I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.
Oxana Chusovitina
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
Ted Yoho
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
Rani Mukerji
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
Bayard Taylor
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
Gary Lineker
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Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
Gary Bauer
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A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
Valerie Plame
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
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The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.
Zoe Kravitz
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
Hannah Kearney
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
Irene Joliot-Curie
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
Tariq Ramadan
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Oscar Wilde
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
Questlove
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
Nancy Pickard
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Growing up, I was in love with Jennifer Aniston from 'Friends.'
Dylan O'Brien
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I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
Brad Pitt
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
Lao Tzu
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
Jessamyn West