Russell Banks Quotes
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
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I used to, like, hit for a half hour and then go eat Cheetos the rest of the day, come out and drill forehands. Now I'm really trying to make it happen, being professional, really going for it, and I miss my Cheetos.
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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.
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I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.
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There may be some things we think will make the bill better, ... It certainly will be in consultation with the White House. But, you know, the president set the limit and I think that's what we're going to work for.
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{The cleansing of spiritual contamination} is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.
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When my coach and team-mates went abroad for competitions, I had to lay on the bed alone, so I felt extremely upset and even thought of retiring. But leaving the platform like that was not the result that I wanted, so I did not give up.
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I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
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I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.
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I started a band in 1961 that eventually became Nazareth later on along the way. I have always been in the band and it is a way of life. I have a great and exciting job.
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I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
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Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
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It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
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The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.
