Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
A. N. Wilson -
The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Walter Salles -
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
Zachary Quinto -
Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss -
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
Adam Cohen -
World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
Harry Browne -
Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth -
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
Ban Ki-moon
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
Rachel Zoe -
If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
Abby Wambach -
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
Wendell Pierce -
If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
Gavin Newsom -
Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Saint Augustine -
Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.
Herb Kohl -
You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
Christopher Priest -
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
Erwin McManus -
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
Geoffrey Chaucer