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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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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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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I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.
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A modern gentleman is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.
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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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It's really exciting, isn't it? We came home and he said, 'Do you want a big wedding or a small wedding?' Here I am a hard-boiled reporter and I have got butterflies.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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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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Don’t hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I’ve lost the way to my mouth.
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It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed.
