Nando Parrado Quotes
Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.
Nando Parrado
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.
Malcolm X
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My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
Harley Quinn Smith
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Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.
Yani Tseng
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In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
Karen Joy Fowler
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
Kara Swisher
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko
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I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term 'artist' rather embarrassing.
M. C. Escher
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Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
Edward Herrmann
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I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.
Masayoshi Son
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Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Allan Sloan
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Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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'I saw a particular personage and I threatened him - yes, Mademoiselle, I, Hercule Poirot, threatened him.' 'With the police?' 'No,' said Poirot drily, 'With the Press - a much more deadly weapon.'
Agatha Christie
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The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
Jacques Monod
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
Virginia Williams
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Love is our only weapon. Only love can turn mere life into a miracle, and draw precious meaning from suffering and fear.
Nando Parrado
