Umar Quotes
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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I eat a lot. I probably eat more than anybody that I know. I'll go on set and get a plate of bacon, a bagel, an omelet, boiled eggs, fresh fruit, oatmeal, fresh juice, potatoes, basically anything that's there. I don't mean that I alternate between these things. I'll eat all of this for breakfast.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life.
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Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.
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Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.
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My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never had curfew. She's a workaholic, like I am. We're not super family-oriented people, you know?
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?
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If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
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Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.
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To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.
