Michael Ondaatje Quotes
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael Ondaatje
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Karen Hughes
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
Taylor Sheridan
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For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
Barack Obama
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The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
Lynda Resnick
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Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
Jason Aldean
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Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.
Kevin Spacey
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This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.
R. C. Sproul
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
Garrison Keillor
