William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
Aasif Mandvi
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
Adam Cohen
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys are done. I said, how bad can it be? 10 grand? She said you're not even close. It came out to almost $50,000 in alcohol for two months.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
Karen Armstrong
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There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.
Fiona Apple
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An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.
Indira Varma
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You know, she often tells me that what I do is great. I don't think she ever thought I would end up doing this with my life. But I think she is happier that I haven't changed over the years, that I am still me, that I care about her and that we are the same as we always were. And I think that is what makes her most proud.
Halle Berry
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She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.
Garth Brooks
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I have motorsport in my DNA and there's no way I can stay away from that world.
Maria de Villota
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O SON OF MAN! My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it.
Bahá'u'lláh
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Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Mahatma Gandhi
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People think just because I'm from the Middle East, I'm an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he'll always ask my opinion about it.
Maz Jobrani
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it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their Americans' inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Difficulty is the nurse of greatness.
William Cullen Bryant