Joan Didion Quotes
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
Gail Devers -
Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.
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It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.
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Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.
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The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.
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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
