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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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 chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.
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Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
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Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
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West Indian cricket means so much to people who live here. And when we're not doing well, we all feel it.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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'Losing My Edge' was an anthem for the aging music nerd, with lyrics detailing a comically epic list of historical dates, bands and attended gigs: the anti-hipster's defence against 'the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.'
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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.
