Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
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Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories.
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The strong must protect the sweet.
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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.
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I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.
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The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
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My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
