John Updike Quotes
When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.
John Updike
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
Hamid Karzai
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My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel.
Haley Joel Osment
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
Orson Welles
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.
A. R. Rahman
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The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Walter Lippmann
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I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
Jessica Alba
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Heroes can be sweet.
Oriana Fallaci
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I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.
Angela Davis
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Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.
Benjamin Booker
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When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams.
John Updike
