Roy Blount, Jr. Quotes
Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
Hank Johnson
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I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
Hari Kondabolu
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
Adam Lambert
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
Francesca Annis
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
Nalo Hopkinson
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I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.
Vidya Balan
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When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.
J. R. Smith
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
Naomie Harris
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I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.
Rachael Ray
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I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.
Salma Hayek
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I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.
Naomie Harris
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.
Christy Turlington
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Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
Johan Rockstrom
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Attacks on health facilities, health workers, ambulances, is now a reality that we observe on the ground - not on a monthly but on a daily or weekly scale in most of the conflicts in which we are engaged.
Peter Maurer
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That was the most congenial conversation I think I've ever had with anybody. What I was saying to him there was, 'I think you can help the football team' - that's when my finger came out. I said, 'Look, you can help this football team. You can rush the punter.' But I was also telling him, 'Now, this is what you need to do in order to do that.
Joe Gibbs
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Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.
Roy Blount, Jr.
