Milan Kundera Quotes
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
Edmond de Goncourt
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
Gabrielle Anwar
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
Zadie Smith
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
H. L. Mencken
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
Ban Ki-moon
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
Gary Coleman
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
Edmund Morgan
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Otto Schily
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
Vicki Lawrence
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
Karolina Kurkova
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Walter Savage Landor
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
Fernando Alonso
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I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
Larry Wilmore
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I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.
Angela Davis
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
Taylor Dane
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honore de Balzac
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
Vicki Lawrence
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
Milan Kundera