Imre Kertesz Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi -
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Paracelsus -
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
T. J. Miller -
I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim -
I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.
Saina Nehwal -
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
Orson Scott Card
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
Xavier Becerra -
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
R. L. Stine -
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Ramsey Clark -
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
Nastia Liukin -
If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
Quentin Blake
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
Oliver North -
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
Gail Sheehy -
My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
Kaley Cuoco -
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
Parker Stevenson -
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
Dakota Johnson
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We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
Rashid al-Ghannushi -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount -
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
Viktor Orban -
I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.
Lee Pearson -
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Hannah Arendt -
If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
Imre Kertesz