Simon Winchester Quotes
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.Simon Winchester
Quotes to Explore
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
Yuna -
Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
Dan Hill -
Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith -
It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.
Jack Zipes -
They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
Jack LaLanne -
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.
Jackson Katz -
The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Barbra Streisand -
The point of the future is that anything can happen.
Viktor Orban -
Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
Larry David -
Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
Edmund Phelps
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Getting up quite late in the morning, going and trying to clean my bikes - I have quite a few of them in Ranchi - spending some time with my family, my parents and friends. Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass. These are the sort of things that really excite me.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
Yara Shahidi -
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra -
You are more than now;You are for always.I can see in youMy dreams come true.Don't you ever go away.You make me feel likeThere's nothing I can't do.And when I hold you,I only want to sayI love you.
Lionel Richie -
I am drawn to humorous art that is ironic.
Dasha Zhukova -
There is no global warming problem, there isn't going to be a global warming problem. Sit back and enjoy the sunshine.
Christopher Monckton
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Hamza Yusuf -
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian -
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
Erik Larson -
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
Simon Winchester