George MacDonald Quotes
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
Camila Alves
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
M. J. Rose
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
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We have to be aware that fossil fuel energy sources have an expiry date. A timeframe of 30, 40 or 50 years can seem a long time to get rewards for economic policy, but it's only a short time for implementing a new energy policy.
Carlo Rubbia
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
Jaclyn Smith
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
Orlando Bloom
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
Barbara Boxer
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
Yuvraj Singh
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
Og Mandino
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
Kate Micucci
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
Laura Miller
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
Zachary Taylor
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.
Orson Scott Card
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
Ira Glass
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes
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The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
Dan Simmons
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I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't intend, or they were stylizing something that was compromising the play, so I started to think like, 'Well if I'm going to fight against this, I should learn how to direct.'
Adam Rapp
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Harry Dresden: You’re in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you’d prefer.Anastasia Luccio: Did you bring a sandwich?Harry Dresden: What do I look like, Kissinger?
Jim Butcher
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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Lydia M. Child
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Epigenetics is very important. We are keeping a close eye on iPS cells and other genetic methods of reprogramming the epigenome.
Liz Parrish
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
George MacDonald
