Nick Rahall (Nick Joe Rahall II) Quotes
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
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I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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I care about waking up to the true issues of the 21st century: inequality, diversity, and the impact of tech.
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Jacqueline Carey has created a postmodern fable of enormous scope and force. Santa Olivia is at once a cautionary tale of people caught in a web of lies and creeping terror, and a love song to the beauty and power of being different. At the novel's heart is the kind of grace Carey is known for: an illumination of the strength that lies hidden inside all of us.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
