Susan Orlean Quotes
Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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I think the reason why people have trouble fighting me is because I don't come from a specific background, and they can't prepare to fight me. I come in, and I push the pace, and I think that pushes a lot of people off their game, as much as I push the pace through the whole fight.
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You can only go into science because you're interested in it.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.
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My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
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The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
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This is one of the hard-and-fast ironies of the Christian tradition: views that at one time were the majority opinion, or at least that were widely seen as completely acceptable, eventually came to be left behind; and as theology moved forward to become increasingly nuanced and sophisticated, these earlier majority opinions came to be condemned as heresies. We have seen this movement already with the exaltation Christology that was the original form of Christian belief. By the second century it was widely deemed heretical. Later understandings of the second century were acceptable and dominant in their day, but they too came to be suspect and even spurned.
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Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.
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This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.
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This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
