H. W. Brands Quotes
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
Octavio Paz -
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
Zara Larsson -
I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
Mallory Jansen -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken -
I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
Malin Akerman
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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
R. L. Stine -
I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
Damien Chazelle -
Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
Earl Weaver -
I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.
Frances McDormand -
Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.
Eduardo Galeano
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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
Margaret Thatcher -
The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.
Kurt Sutter -
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
Matt Lauer -
If there is a doctrine, a message behind Live, it's just that wordless intensity that doesn't necessarily have to mean anything.
Ed Kowalczyk -
I try to forget what happiness was,and when that don't work, I study the stars.
Derek Walcott -
When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover. Because ever since the great tulipmania in 1637, speculation has always been covered by a new paradigm. There was never a paradigm so new and so wonderful as the one that covered John Law and the South Sea Bubble - until the day of disaster.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.
Plato -
That which holds our attention determines our action.
Prince William -
My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
Zoe Foster Blake -
Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.
H. W. Brands