Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
Harry Bridges
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
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Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
Kate Moss
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Fantasia Barrino
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
Nazanin Boniadi
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
Ma Jian
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I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers
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People on the lower rungs are more vulnerable to sexual harassment than those at the top.
Dawn Steel
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I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
Mark Ronson
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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.
Don McLean
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The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.
James Patterson
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There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.
Marc Guggenheim
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Spices, of course, are essential.
Marcus Samuelsson
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The global climate is a complex interactive system, with all kinds of nonlinear feedback loops.
Alex Shoumatoff
