Maaza Mengiste Quotes
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
Maaza Mengiste
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
Aaron Koblin
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
Yitzhak Navon
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.
Olivia Wilde
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
Rachel Zoe
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
Gary Numan
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
Tate Donovan
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
Vidal Sassoon
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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
Carly Schroeder
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton