Sebastian Junger Quotes
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.Sebastian Junger
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett -
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
Sam Bradford -
'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
Gail Carson Levine -
A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
Abbie Cornish
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant -
If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
Victor Koo -
I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
Patricia Riggen -
Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
Nancy Lopez
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Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
e. e. cummings -
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
A. S. Byatt -
The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.
Aasif Mandvi -
When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.
Mao Zedong -
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
Aristotle -
My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.
Alice Greczyn
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Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.
Yasmin Mogahed -
A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.
David McCord -
All records are not made to be broken.
Karl Malone -
It's one thing to break stuff and damage people's possessions, but when you start aiming at the ideology of America, that's dangerous comedy.
Adam McKay -
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
Ed Smith -
If hardship brought out the worst in people, the human race wouldn't have survived. Right after 9/11, for instance, the murder rate actually went down in New York City. In World War II during the Blitz, the civilians of London were bombed almost every night for six months, but psychiatric admissions declined.
Sebastian Junger