Ba Jin Quotes
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
Rafer Johnson -
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
Ed Koch -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Hannah Kent
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
Karen Salmansohn -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra -
Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
M. J. Rose -
With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
Maiara Walsh
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
S. E. Hinton -
The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey -
I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
Larry Fitzgerald -
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond -
My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
Naeem Khan
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Pandit Pran Nath has given much of his later life to America and Europe and has influenced many of our younger composers.
Bernard Holland -
It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.
Jai Rodriguez -
Plato … teaches the separation of the human soul from its 'home' in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas.
Paul Tillich -
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
Mary McCarthy -
Tonight, you made my perfect picture look like black and white. I know I’ve never seen my colors so alive. With you around, I know that we’re gonna be fine. Tonight, you made my perfect picture come to life and I don’t know why.
Beatrice Miller -
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
Ba Jin