Shana Alexander Quotes
The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
Garry Wills
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
Ed Bradley
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There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.
Octavia Spencer
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
Samuel Foote
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
Natalia Kills
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
Barbara Demick
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It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.
Adam Braun
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I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.
Yoko Ono
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A person is born with a liking for profit.
Xun Kuang
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I was born an auntie. I have an older niece and nephew and many younger nieces and nephews.
Zendaya
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I was born naked. I'm a natural. I'm a natural nude. So I've been on camera naked a lot.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My mum was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and even though my grandparents weren't wealthy, they were aristocrats in their time.
Nargis Fakhri
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?
Karl Pearson
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Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.
Karen Allen
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Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. No matter what happens. I need you to remember that I love you.
Laini Taylor
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I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
Sophocles
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Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.
Joanne Rowling
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Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
C. S. Lewis
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I don't find it humiliating when they call me a psychopath or witch.
Kangana Ranaut
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We are all astronauts on spaceship earth
Wubbo Ockels
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The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.
Shana Alexander