Ishmael Beah Quotes
This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.
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I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.
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We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war.
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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...'progress', in poetry at least, comes not so much from digesting the last age as from rejecting it altogether (or, rather, from eating a little and leaving a lot), and...the world’s dialectic is a sort of neo-Hegelian one in which one progresses not by resolving contradictions but by ignoring them.
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.
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I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
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I will travel to all 75 counties in Arkansas every year, listen to your stories and concerns, and work hard every single day on the issues affecting you and your family instead of visiting exotic foreign countries on the taxpayer dime.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
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This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.
