Ismail Kadare (Ismail Halit Kadare) Quotes
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!
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I study to learn, to be an educated person.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins.
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Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.
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There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.
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To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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I will always be looking back at the things I've gone through, thinking of the struggling people I've seen.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
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There is a shade of red for every woman.
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I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
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Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come.
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It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
