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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I'd like to be curvier.
Cara Delevingne -
I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
Sam Bradford
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I've always basically done everything that's been offered to me. I'm one of the few actors who enjoy working a lot.
Abhishek Bachchan -
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
Joseph B. Wirthlin -
I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
Jackie Chan -
If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
Maurice Sendak -
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
Ba Jin