Joan Didion Quotes
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I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
Natasha Little -
I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
Kate del Castillo -
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama -
We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
Federica Mogherini -
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
A. N. Wilson -
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Barbra Streisand -
I'll always be tough on myself.
Kate Bush -
I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
Dalai Lama -
I like to think of myself as a 'Mord the jailer' type.
D. B. Weiss -
When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.
Katey Sagal
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
Carl Jung -
If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.
Halle Berry -
Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.
Samuel Gompers -
The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.
Tariq Ramadan -
Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
Majel Barrett
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These arms of mine, They are lonely. Lonely and feeling blue. These arms of mine, They are yearning. Yearning from wanting you. And if you would let them hold you, Oh how grateful I will be.
Otis Redding -
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
John Roberts -
You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
Wallace Shawn -
Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.
Marge Piercy -
Mozambique is having an economic resurgence but still four out of 10 people there have HIV or AIDS...There's astounding conditions but what I was left with...was the power of the human spirit there and the fact these people have been through so much and they were still dancing in the streets.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion