Abiola Abrams Quotes
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I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!
Pat Barker -
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman -
My God, I have almost never believed in you, and yet I have always loved you.
Antonio Porchia -
I just wanted to be a part of the band. Actually, that's what inspired me.
Jam Master Jay -
I do not believe having a baby is punishment.
Allen West -
Immigration is a sensitive topic.
Mario Diaz-Balart
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow -
Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.
Charles McCarry -
Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.
Fujio Mitarai -
Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obama's victory is a manifestation not of Washington's need for change, but of America's. That is not how democracy works in England.
Andrew O'Hagan -
I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
Bernadine Dohrn -
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
Anthony Daniels
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writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.
Fannie Hurst -
It`s not our conditions, but our decisions that shape our lives. I truly believe that it`s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. So choose carefully what things mean, and what to do about them. With conscious focus, a connection with our loving nature, and a desire to serve, we truly can experience heaven while still here on earth.
Anthony Robbins -
How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance.
Astra Taylor -
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
Ed O'Neill -
It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.
Gary Johnson -
When the contrary magnetic poles were on the same side, there was an effect produced on the polarized ray, and thus magnetic force and light were proved to have relation to each other.
Michael Faraday
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence.
Nikola Tesla -
This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
A woman in love with herself is magnetic.
Abiola Abrams