Evan Thomas Quotes
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's kind of the version of Harland you'd get - silly, kind of always saying wacky things.
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You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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I am rather inclined to silence.
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There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
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It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.
