Herodotus Quotes
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus
Quotes to Explore
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
Lakshmi Mittal
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
Kate Atkinson
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Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
Barney Frank
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
Cameron Sinclair
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
Randi Weingarten
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I have to live up to the love I am receiving.
Yami Gautam
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
Wadah Khanfar
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
T. J. Miller
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
Nancy Gibbs
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
Aaron Neville
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Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland...I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around...Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
Jack Palance
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For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.
Miguel de Cervantes
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We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus
