Susan Minot Quotes
The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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Le temps dont nous disposons chaque jour est élastique; les passions que nous ressentons le dilatent, celles que nous inspirons le rétrécissent et l'habitude le remplit.
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My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
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I'm not optimistic.
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I spent most of my young life in the business and missed out on school events. I needed to be a young person and do what I wanted to do.
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no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
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The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.
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Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life. Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?
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The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.
