Susan Shreve Quotes
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
Susan Shreve
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
Dale Archer
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Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
Abraham Verghese
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
Taylor Mali
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
Karine Vanasse
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
Oscar Fernandes
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.
Mae Whitman
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If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
Carlisle Floyd
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Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Wendell Willkie
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You should be able to have good matches against anybody.
Charlie Haas
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Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
David Niven
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I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.
Dean Karnazes
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I would say where I feel like I'm struggling the most in learning and giving myself permission to fail is in finding the balance in life. There are different aspects to women: there's the mother, there's the working woman, there's the wife, the friend, the sister, the daughter and so just figuring that all out. I continue to want to try new things and give myself permission to not be great at it.
Sara Blakely
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My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
Susan Shreve
