Sherman Alexie Quotes
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People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.
Sam Kean
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
Yakov Smirnoff
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
Zoe Kravitz
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
Garth Brooks
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These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
Barry Manilow
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
Taylor Dayne
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
Eddie Charles Jones
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Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher
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We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
Malcolm Wallop
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The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
Barbara Mikulski
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In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
Dan Lipinski
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Barbra Streisand
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
Octavio Paz
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When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.
Zuleikha Robinson
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
Olga Korbut
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This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
Vince Gill
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I'm pretty much on the "eat whatever you can diet," just to get calories in, so I can maintain myself throughout the season.
Stephen Curry
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Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.
Elisabeth Murdoch
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
Patrick Demarchelier
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
Tammy Duckworth
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What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.
Alexandre Dumas
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We are taught to take the bread into our bodies as proof of Jesus's body.
Sherman Alexie