Russell Banks Quotes
But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Russell Banks
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So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
Adam Levine
Maroon 5
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
Victoria Pendleton
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
Hannah Ware
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Fernando Pessoa
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
Maajid Nawaz
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
Bebe Rexha
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I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards.
I. M. Pei
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
Floyd Abrams
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
Kabir Bedi
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
Zebulon Pike
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Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
H. L. Hunt
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
Frances Beinecke
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams
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How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it alone.
Sarah Dessen
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I hear from all different people, not just people like me, or lesbians. It be straight people, it be grown men, it be grown women, people that have been sick or depressed that say, 'Oh, you made me want to go do what I want to do for myself and chase my dreams.' That's my purpose.
Young M.A
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But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Russell Banks
