Virginia Woolf Quotes
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
Walter Salles
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
Larry Elder
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
Nas
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
Victoria Aveyard
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
Barney Ross
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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Alan Rudolph
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
Jochen Zeitz
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
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A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.
Janet Weiss
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Essentially, you become a top tweet because so many people are engaging with that tweet. They're either retweeting it, or they're favoriting it; they're doing one of many things to indicate to us that that tweet is interesting and engaging to users.
Biz Stone
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf