Norman Davies Quotes
Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.
Norman Davies
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente Fox
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
Rachael Taylor
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Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
Dale Archer
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
Vince Vaughn
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
Gavin DeGraw
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
Rachel Kushner
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Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first. Growth, it is argued, is always more important, regardless of the looming economic risks.
Raghuram Rajan
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Chess is the most intimate game in the world. It's like making love. By the time we finish our first slow game, I will know all his thoughts.
Eloisa James
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I think in the world we live in where television is the principal source of information for most people, it really affects the balance of the democratic process. The fairness of the democratic process.
Alexander Stille
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A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.
Florence Nightingale
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
Edgard Varese
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You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.
A. S. Byatt
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Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.
Norman Davies