Virginia Woolf Quotes
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.
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I very often compare relations between states to relations with people. Sometimes we are nicer to those we don't know well, who are not our friends, than we are to our friends, because with our friends we don't need to be nice all the time.
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One in our hands and another in our ming, and the most importan is the one in our mind.
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A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.
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When men have killed joy, I do not believe they still live.
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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
