Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
Raf Simons -
It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
Kaley Cuoco -
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
Pat Metheny -
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.
Walter Dean Myers -
I grew up near Strasbourg in Alsace, where my family were coal merchants.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Paul Wellstone -
I love 'Capote.' Huge fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman; if he's not my all-time favorite actor he's definitely in my top five. I just love him so much.
Chris Pratt -
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
Mary Boykin Chesnut -
I knew it was right to make time for myself to have adventures and fulfil dreams.
Jameela Jamil -
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.
Marcus Samuelsson -
I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.
Eric Berry
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Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics.
Bob Cousy -
Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.
Bre Pettis -
When I came out in the draft, people kept asking me, 'So are you a small forward or a power forward?' and I was like, 'I'm a basketball player.' Period.
Draymond Green -
Talent is in short supply everywhere. At Wipro, we are training nonengineers to be engineers.
Azim Premji -
I'm not doubtful that I am doing what I should be doing - writing for theater - and that I'm doing it in a way no one else does it. Whether anyone else is paying attention or anyone else cares, I'm still ambivalent about that. It's still an open question.
Jason Robert Brown -
Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
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If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you. If you recognize it, your awareness will destroy it. He who rejects this will never know the entrance to the Temple.
R. A. Schwaller -
Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
George Eliot -
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin -
Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.
Antonio Banderas -
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
William Gurnall -
Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Roy Blount, Jr.